Ceryl
@politicdormouse.bsky.social
Historian Curator Wikimedian 🤓🏴🇪🇺 🗃️ Hic Sunt Dracones 🐑🍬 “Wiki Medium” ☠️ (you need to be dead before I write about you). History of #WomenInSTEM & other things that catch my interest. Every month is #WomensHistoryMonth here
Berta Persson 1st #Swedish woman bus driver. Bus licence inspector failed her twice for being a woman. 3rd time had male driver witnesses: passed! Nicknamed Buss-Berta, she drove Kappelshamn-Visby route from 1927-34, had 8th child during time. d. #OTD 9 Dec 1961 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berta_P...
December 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Berta Persson 1st #Swedish woman bus driver. Bus licence inspector failed her twice for being a woman. 3rd time had male driver witnesses: passed! Nicknamed Buss-Berta, she drove Kappelshamn-Visby route from 1927-34, had 8th child during time. d. #OTD 9 Dec 1961 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berta_P...
1951 Rosemary West 3rd woman 2 graduate Engineering Sciences @ Oxford Uni. Worked 4 GEC Ltd until sacked after birth of daughter. Early microcomputer specialist @wes1919.bsky.social President 1982-3 championed women's right 2 return 2 work b #OTD 8 Dec 1928 www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-...
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
1951 Rosemary West 3rd woman 2 graduate Engineering Sciences @ Oxford Uni. Worked 4 GEC Ltd until sacked after birth of daughter. Early microcomputer specialist @wes1919.bsky.social President 1982-3 championed women's right 2 return 2 work b #OTD 8 Dec 1928 www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-...
Betty Holberton US computer scientist. #WWII 1 of 6 original programmers of ENIAC 1st general-purpose electronic digital computer. Invented breakpoints in computer debugging. "Solved more problems in her sleep than other people did awake". d. #OTD 8 Dec 2001 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_H...
December 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Betty Holberton US computer scientist. #WWII 1 of 6 original programmers of ENIAC 1st general-purpose electronic digital computer. Invented breakpoints in computer debugging. "Solved more problems in her sleep than other people did awake". d. #OTD 8 Dec 2001 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_H...
Elmira Ramazanova #Azerbaijani geologist & petroleum engineer, specialised in efficiency of oil & gas extraction. Professor @ Azerbaijan State Oil Industry Uni. 1992 Director of Geotech Problems of Oil, Gas & Chemistry Scientific Research Institute d. #OTD 8 Dec 2020 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmira_...
December 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Elmira Ramazanova #Azerbaijani geologist & petroleum engineer, specialised in efficiency of oil & gas extraction. Professor @ Azerbaijan State Oil Industry Uni. 1992 Director of Geotech Problems of Oil, Gas & Chemistry Scientific Research Institute d. #OTD 8 Dec 2020 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmira_...
Evelyn Berezin US computer designer of 1st computer-driven word processor. 1969 founder/president of Redactron Corporation, 1st company manufacturing & selling WPs. She also worked on computer-controlled systems for airline reservations d. #OTD 8 Dec 2018 #WomenInTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_...
December 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Evelyn Berezin US computer designer of 1st computer-driven word processor. 1969 founder/president of Redactron Corporation, 1st company manufacturing & selling WPs. She also worked on computer-controlled systems for airline reservations d. #OTD 8 Dec 2018 #WomenInTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_...
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Nefise Akçelik (1955-2003) #Turkish civil engineer who specialised in building tunnels - over 200 in her career. The 'Ordu Nefise Akçelik Tunnel' which she worked on but didn't live to see finished was renamed in her honour. #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefise_...
December 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Nefise Akçelik (1955-2003) #Turkish civil engineer who specialised in building tunnels - over 200 in her career. The 'Ordu Nefise Akçelik Tunnel' which she worked on but didn't live to see finished was renamed in her honour. #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefise_...
Valerie Hunter Gordon inventor of PADDI, thought to be 1st disposable nappy & Nikini early sanitary towel system. Nikini earned more royalties than Paddi as “there are probably more menstruating women in the world than incontinent babies". b. #OTD 7 Dec 1921 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie...
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Valerie Hunter Gordon inventor of PADDI, thought to be 1st disposable nappy & Nikini early sanitary towel system. Nikini earned more royalties than Paddi as “there are probably more menstruating women in the world than incontinent babies". b. #OTD 7 Dec 1921 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie...
Nefise Akçelik (1955-2003) #Turkish civil engineer who specialised in building tunnels - over 200 in her career. The 'Ordu Nefise Akçelik Tunnel' which she worked on but didn't live to see finished was renamed in her honour. #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefise_...
December 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Nefise Akçelik (1955-2003) #Turkish civil engineer who specialised in building tunnels - over 200 in her career. The 'Ordu Nefise Akçelik Tunnel' which she worked on but didn't live to see finished was renamed in her honour. #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefise_...
Else Haugk 1st #Swiss woman to earn pilot's licence. Trained in Germany, received Swiss licence No. 48 on 11 May & German licence No. 785 on 6 Jun 1914. Nurse in #WWI, 1952 moved to #Chile & took up piloting again, flying over the #Andes d. #OTD 6 Dec 1973 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Else_Ha...
December 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
14 women were shot to death at Université de Montréal’s École Polytechnique #Canada #OTD 6 Dec 1989. 12 were engineering students. Thirteen others were injured. The shooter - who died by suicide - claimed he was ‘fighting feminism’. #RIP en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89c...
December 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
14 women were shot to death at Université de Montréal’s École Polytechnique #Canada #OTD 6 Dec 1989. 12 were engineering students. Thirteen others were injured. The shooter - who died by suicide - claimed he was ‘fighting feminism’. #RIP en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89c...
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Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar and was awarded the Lavoisier Medal for outstanding technical achievement. DuPont made a fortune, Kwolek did not. #women #herstory
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December 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar and was awarded the Lavoisier Medal for outstanding technical achievement. DuPont made a fortune, Kwolek did not. #women #herstory
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Harriet Tracy US inventor. 27 patents, incl a crib, 17 sewing machines, cooking stove & fire escape. The Tracy Gravity Safety Elevator slowed descent in case of power outage, used in 1893 @ Woman's Building @ World's Columbian Exposition Chicago. b. #OTD 6 Dec 1834 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet...
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Harriet Tracy US inventor. 27 patents, incl a crib, 17 sewing machines, cooking stove & fire escape. The Tracy Gravity Safety Elevator slowed descent in case of power outage, used in 1893 @ Woman's Building @ World's Columbian Exposition Chicago. b. #OTD 6 Dec 1834 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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It's the Spitfire that gets all the love, but the Hurricane was often better suited to the small scale production methods of the day.
Here a team of carefully trained erks harvest caviar from a gravid female.
Here a team of carefully trained erks harvest caviar from a gravid female.
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It's the Spitfire that gets all the love, but the Hurricane was often better suited to the small scale production methods of the day.
Here a team of carefully trained erks harvest caviar from a gravid female.
Here a team of carefully trained erks harvest caviar from a gravid female.
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Ann Welch UK pilot. 1934 earned pilot's licence @ 17. #WWII Air Transport Auxiliary pilot. 1980 Fédération Aéronautique Internationale's Gold Air Medal 4 contribution to develop't of 4 air sports #gliding #HangGliding #paragliding #microlight flying d #OTD 5 Dec 2002 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Welch
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Ann Welch UK pilot. 1934 earned pilot's licence @ 17. #WWII Air Transport Auxiliary pilot. 1980 Fédération Aéronautique Internationale's Gold Air Medal 4 contribution to develop't of 4 air sports #gliding #HangGliding #paragliding #microlight flying d #OTD 5 Dec 2002 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Welch
Ann Welch UK pilot. 1934 earned pilot's licence @ 17. #WWII Air Transport Auxiliary pilot. 1980 Fédération Aéronautique Internationale's Gold Air Medal 4 contribution to develop't of 4 air sports #gliding #HangGliding #paragliding #microlight flying d #OTD 5 Dec 2002 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Welch
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Ann Welch UK pilot. 1934 earned pilot's licence @ 17. #WWII Air Transport Auxiliary pilot. 1980 Fédération Aéronautique Internationale's Gold Air Medal 4 contribution to develop't of 4 air sports #gliding #HangGliding #paragliding #microlight flying d #OTD 5 Dec 2002 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Welch
#OTD 4 Dec 1921 @nytimes announced Carlia S Westcott of #Seattle #Washington 1st US woman to earn Marine Engineer license. Wescott believed that “Women are peculiarly fitted for gas & steam engineering as...principal requirement is close attention to duty” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlia_...
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
#OTD 4 Dec 1921 @nytimes announced Carlia S Westcott of #Seattle #Washington 1st US woman to earn Marine Engineer license. Wescott believed that “Women are peculiarly fitted for gas & steam engineering as...principal requirement is close attention to duty” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlia_...
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Ivy Cummings claimed that in 1913 age 11 she was youngest person to lap Brooklands racetrack in her dad's car when he wasn't looking. Grew up to be successful racing driver, ran garage in 1920s on #Putney Bridge Road where repaired & sold cars. d. #OTD 04 Dec 1971 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Cum...
December 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Ivy Cummings claimed that in 1913 age 11 she was youngest person to lap Brooklands racetrack in her dad's car when he wasn't looking. Grew up to be successful racing driver, ran garage in 1920s on #Putney Bridge Road where repaired & sold cars. d. #OTD 04 Dec 1971 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Cum...
Mary Plumb Blade US engineer. 1933 1st woman to earn engineering BS @ Uni of Utah. Professor of mechanical engineering in engineering school @ Cooper Union 1946-78. 1 of organisers May 1950 inaugural weekend of Soc Women Engineers, Director of Green Camp 1955-72. d. #OTD 4 Dec 1994 bit.ly/3R8XMxr
December 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Mary Plumb Blade US engineer. 1933 1st woman to earn engineering BS @ Uni of Utah. Professor of mechanical engineering in engineering school @ Cooper Union 1946-78. 1 of organisers May 1950 inaugural weekend of Soc Women Engineers, Director of Green Camp 1955-72. d. #OTD 4 Dec 1994 bit.ly/3R8XMxr
Ivy Cummings claimed that in 1913 age 11 she was youngest person to lap Brooklands racetrack in her dad's car when he wasn't looking. Grew up to be successful racing driver, ran garage in 1920s on #Putney Bridge Road where repaired & sold cars. d. #OTD 04 Dec 1971 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Cum...
December 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Ivy Cummings claimed that in 1913 age 11 she was youngest person to lap Brooklands racetrack in her dad's car when he wasn't looking. Grew up to be successful racing driver, ran garage in 1920s on #Putney Bridge Road where repaired & sold cars. d. #OTD 04 Dec 1971 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Cum...
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Araceli Sánchez Urquijo (1920-2010) 1st woman to work as civil #engineer in #Spain As a child during Spanish Civil War, was a Niños de Rusia, evacuated to #Russia for safety. Trained in cutting edge engineering in Moscow, returned to Spain after 20 yrs #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araceli...
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Araceli Sánchez Urquijo (1920-2010) 1st woman to work as civil #engineer in #Spain As a child during Spanish Civil War, was a Niños de Rusia, evacuated to #Russia for safety. Trained in cutting edge engineering in Moscow, returned to Spain after 20 yrs #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araceli...
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by Dr. Nina Baker. @ninabake2.bsky.social
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by Dr. Nina Baker. @ninabake2.bsky.social
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December 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Check out this book on her www.amazon.com/Adventures-A...
by Dr. Nina Baker. @ninabake2.bsky.social
#booksky
#books
by Dr. Nina Baker. @ninabake2.bsky.social
#booksky
#books
Araceli Sánchez Urquijo (1920-2010) 1st woman to work as civil #engineer in #Spain As a child during Spanish Civil War, was a Niños de Rusia, evacuated to #Russia for safety. Trained in cutting edge engineering in Moscow, returned to Spain after 20 yrs #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araceli...
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Araceli Sánchez Urquijo (1920-2010) 1st woman to work as civil #engineer in #Spain As a child during Spanish Civil War, was a Niños de Rusia, evacuated to #Russia for safety. Trained in cutting edge engineering in Moscow, returned to Spain after 20 yrs #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araceli...
Fay Gillis Wells US aviator. 1929 1 of 1st women pilots to bail out of plane to save life, a @theninetyninesinc.bsky.social founder. 1930s journalist in USSR, 1st US woman to fly Soviet civil airplane. Covered wars, White House correspondent 1963-77 d #OTD 2 Dec 2002 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fay_Gil...
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Fay Gillis Wells US aviator. 1929 1 of 1st women pilots to bail out of plane to save life, a @theninetyninesinc.bsky.social founder. 1930s journalist in USSR, 1st US woman to fly Soviet civil airplane. Covered wars, White House correspondent 1963-77 d #OTD 2 Dec 2002 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fay_Gil...
Mária Telkes #Hungarian #American #biophysicist #scientist & #inventor who worked on solar energy technologies. She is considered one of founders of solar thermal storage systems, earning her the nickname "the Sun Queen"🌞👑. d. #OTD December 2 1995 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1...
December 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Mária Telkes #Hungarian #American #biophysicist #scientist & #inventor who worked on solar energy technologies. She is considered one of founders of solar thermal storage systems, earning her the nickname "the Sun Queen"🌞👑. d. #OTD December 2 1995 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1...