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In 1891, Dr. Hurd-Mead established the Evening Dispensary for Working Women and Girls, the first institution in Baltimore to employ women physicians.

In 1922 she became an associate fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and in 1925 joined the Royal Airship Works in Cardington.

Australian botanist

Defence electronics engineer Betty Killick was also the first woman to become a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

British electronics engineer

British metallurgical chemist

Emily Dunn is one of two Yorkshirewomen running their own quarries in the first half of the 20th century, the other being Anne Greaves.

The U.S. Naval Observatory hired Isabel M. Lewis and Eleanor A. Lamson long before women were even allowed to enroll at the U.S. Naval Academy.

British motorist, engineer and metallurgist

The founder of the UK’s first independent software house