Joan Lavender
British defence electronics engineer and CAD pioneer.
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Joan Curran
Joan Strothers was a Welsh physicist-engineer who was the inventor of the UK form of the WW2 anti-radar measure known as ‘chaff’ or ‘window’.
Henrietta Vansittart
Henrietta Lowe Vansittart is often considered to be the first British woman to work as a ‘proper’ engineer or naval architect.
Henrietta Bussell
The UK’s first female railway engineer
Hilda M Lyon
In 1922 she became an associate fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and in 1925 joined the Royal Airship Works in Cardington.
Dr Frances Heywood
In the 1930s Frances started the research for which she is best known and which led to her PhD, on the characteristics of the tin-based alloys used in making typeface.
Georgina Kermode
British-Australian suffrage campaigner and engineer
Gertrude Lilian Entwisle
She was one of the first women to attend engineering lectures at Manchester University, after the engineering faculty decided to open its classes to women mid-way through her physics degree. She was the first woman to be admitted to the technical staff of British Westinghouse, the first woman member of the Society of Technical Engineers and the first Student, Graduate and Associate Member of the IEE (now the IET).
Gladys Lawson
British draughtswoman who designed and drew power transformers.
Major Gwendolen Sergant
Finding her way barred to more challenging roles in industry she took a commission as an engineer in the Women’s Royal Army Corps in 1953.