Vera Huckel
Vera Huckel started work at the NACA in 1939.At the time, very few women worked as computers. By 1945 she was a section head in charge of up to 17 women, having worked as mathematician, aerospace engineer, and supervisory mathematician.
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Victoria Drummond
The first woman ship’s engineer and role model for women at sea, who were not able to follow in her wake until 10 years after she retired.
Hilary Kahn
Pioneering software engineer who laid the basis for CAD for engineers of today.
Dr Daphne Jackson
Nuclear engineer and founder of the UK’s returner fellowships programme.
Mary Parsons
English blacksmith, photographer and ancestor of the founders of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Kathryn Peddrew
Kathryn Peddrew spent over 40 years working for the NACA/NASA, mainly working in balance in the Instrument Research Division.
Dr Mary Safford-Blake
Mary Jane Safford (1834-1891), known as the “Cairo Angel,” was a nurse during the Civil War and later a physician and advocate for women’s health and suffrage. She taught at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Jessie Garnett
Boston’s first African American woman dentist
Lucretia Crocker
As the first woman supervisor of the Boston Public Schools, Lucretia Crocker pioneered the discovery method of teaching mathematics and the natural sciences during her decade-long tenure, which began with her appointment in 1876.
Dr Lucy Ellen Sewall
Surgeon, and Resident Physician at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Roxbury from 1872-75.