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Nina Baker
@ninabake2.bsky.social
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Independent engineering historian: women in engineering, motoring, aviation, construction. Writing book on women's motoring clubs worldwide. Ex-MN. Ex-Deacon Hammermen of Glasgow. OBE. No profile? I won't follow you https://womenengineerssite.wordpress.com
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · Nov 14
I am writing a book about the history of the clubs that women motorists have set up for themselves worldwide from the 1890s to the present day.
If you or your mum etc were ever in such a group anywhere in the world I would love to hear from you.
Here are some of the badges of UK clubs:
Essex Ladies' Motoring Club badge Guild of Lady Drivers badge Women's Automobile & Sports Association badge The Women Drivers Association badge
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 42m
Kirkcudbright
Kirkcaldy
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 44m
Oh yes, ever so posh.
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 48m
Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan #Scottish civil engineer & 1st woman member of ICE Engineers in 1927. She was #engineer on #Sydney Harbour Bridge #Australia, #Tyne Bridge linking #NewcastleUponTyne & #Gateshead & Lambeth Bridge in #London. b. #OTD 8 Oct 1899 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...
Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan as a young woman
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 7h
Well done, Ferreteers!
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 8h
All set for increasing sea levels.....😉
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 8h
The flat one.😉
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 8h
A recent 'improvement' was to close down the old public conveniences near The Bridge & replace with a modern block a goodish walk away. On a recent visit only ONE of the cubicles in the new block was working.
UNACCEPTABLE for such an important visitor area, not least for cruise liner passengers etc
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 8h
Pennington was one of the early women pioneers in chemical engineering mentioned in my book. Anyone who wants a pdf of it, please DM me with an email address.
Cover of history of women in chemical engineering book
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 8h
An elderly local once told me that the Kelvin Court apartment block in Glasgow was referred to as the 'high' flats when they were being built.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/1727724...
Kelvin Court: A Glasgow icon at 80 and a warning for the future
ROBERT Love is remembering the early days of making Taggart, and what Glasgow used to look like. The grey high-rises of the Gorbals, the red docks…
www.heraldscotland.com
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 10h
I have been diagnosed with T2D so told to eat almost no carbs. Oh, I thought, that means no rice, wheat, tatties etc. How about if I make flat breads from chickpea flour? Only it turns out that chickpeas have nearly as much carb as wheat flour.....
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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 1d
#BiographyoftheWeek from the Dictionary of Irish Biography

‘Looking for women math majors.’

In spring 1942, with a shortage of trained men, Kay McNulty from Creeslough, Co. Donegal, was hired as a 'computer' to perform ballistics calculations at the Moore School, University of Pennsylvania.
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 10h
My parents lived in an old barge at Cheyne Walk when I was a baby.
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 10h
Hyndland Road is the only place I can think of in Glasgow where it might fly.
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 15h
Marcelle Lafont French chemical engineer. Graduated l'école de chimie de #Lyon 1930. Got HGV licence, learned to fly. 1935 stood for election before women had vote in France. Awarded medal for work in #WWII French Resistance. 1960s Mayor of Songieu. d #OTD 8 Oct 1982 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcell...
Marcelle Lafont in grainy B&W head and shoulders photo wearing a beret and dark uniform #WomenInSTEM
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 15h
I hope you arent implying that Greggs workers are not skilled artisans?🤣😉
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 15h
I read about this in yesterdays Scotsman and thought the guy has a very high bar to jump to do better than Greggs or anyone using Morton's Rolls. But perhaps Stockbridge is the natural home for such a 'coals to Newcastle plus ponce' effort.
I note he isnt trying this on in Glasgow 🤣
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 15h
The only solution is to move to Scotland where the majority of our pre-1910 housing has room heights of 10-12 feet.
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 1d
A version of the famous Proverbs bit was read out at the annual Founders Day service at my all-girls school. The irony is that the school was very feminist and academically-focussed and really had no time for the domestic arts!
www.bible.com/bible/compar...
Proverbs 31:10-31 Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, So that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and ...
Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, So that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil All the d...
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 1d
I was thinking of such a map and so glad you had a stab at it. The tour is madness. Either he has his own private plane or he has his own private plane. I dont think this could work by eithe car or train.
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 1d
Absolutely. I will nudge MOH.
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 1d
SBJs remain largely a mystery to me even after 40yrs with MOH the birder. He is incredibly patient with my utter failure to master identifying most of anything that is not a seabird.
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 1d
When we moved to Cathcart in 2012 we saw housesparrows across the road but never here for several years. But eventually they overcame their famous territorial shyness to try our front garden feeders and now we have them all over our garden.
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 1d
I am REALLY looking forward to the 'How did we do' survey email from John Lewis's white goods dept.
I spent 33 mins on the phone today to order a cooker. Most of that was spent listening to long periods of silence while the 'sales' person did something unknowable.
They dont deserve the sale really.
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 2d
I think my favourite aspect of modern life is receiving three follow-up emails asking “how did we do? DON’T FORGET TO RATE US” about an order that hasn’t yet been dispatched.
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 1d
Ta! Maybe we will see them in our garden and perhaps even ring one.
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Delthia Ricks @dricks.bsky.social · 2d
Darleane Hoffman, a trailblazing nuclear chemist, has died. She was 98 & hailed as one of the 50 most important women in science. Her research confirmed the existence of several elusive radioactive elements, including one that had sparked a Cold War fight w/ the Russians. By Delthia Ricks👇
Darleane Hoffman, Innovator in Nuclear Chemistry, Dies at 98
www.nytimes.com
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