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.
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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.
Dr Helen Grimshaw
In 1937 she joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) Farnborough where she remained for the whole of a very eminent career.
Monica Maurice
Director of her family’s Wolf Safety Lamp Company, which made safety lamps for mining and quarrying
Ethel H Bailey
American mechanical engineer working from about 1917 to some time in the 1950s.
Eliza Sheffield
English entrepreneur, socialite and forger
Elizabeth Georgeson
Scotland’s first female engineering graduate.