Mary Kendrick
Whenever you hear of cities flooding or read about the potential for climate change and sealevel rise to flood our major cities, you can thank Mary Kendrick for her life’s work on the Thames and Mersey river systems.
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Peggy Hodges
Defence electronics engineer
Pauline Gower
Set up and commanded the women’s Air Transport Auxiliary in WWII
Rachel M Parsons
During the First World War she replaced her brother as a director on the board of their father’s Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company and oversaw the recruitment and training of women war workers
Rose Winslade
Acoustic and electronics engineer and technical educator.
Rosemary West
Women’s Engineering Society president and pioneering computer engineer.
Ruth Pirret
British metallurgist and corrosion specialist
Sheila Leather
She was an amateur engineer in her own time and in 1940 she was one of the first women trainees on the courses run by the Women’s Engineering Society at the Beaufoy Institute in London to prepare women for engineering war work.
Maria Watkins
Austrian-British electrical engineer and Women’s Engineering Society President in 1980-81; in 1984 donated the Watkins Medal to the society to be awarded to the best female engineering graduate of the year.
Theresa E Wallach
Engineer, motorcycle racer, adventurer and author.