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politicdormouse.bsky.social
Ceryl
@politicdormouse.bsky.social
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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
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 51m
Perfect, will add tomorrow.
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 2h
Stella “Jaye” "Pete" Edwards, last of UK women #WWII Air Transport Auxiliary pilots. Early 1943 saw advert for women pilots to join #ATA, flew 20 types of aircraft, with very little training & always solo, most enjoyed flying Hawker Hurricanes. b. #OTD 12 Oct 1918 bit.ly/3e1pKM7
Stella “Jaye” "Pete" Edwards in B&W headshot wearing leather flying helmet with goggles pushed up onto forehead
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 2h
Always happy to help with that. Here you go - www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136485... Just the basics in there - more info can get added as found. And she will appear in Women in Red's Red Lists for engineering and maths.
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 5h
🧵Dr Gwendoline Marjorie Roper (1901-72)
Truly, there is always more to know. Yesterday I bought this newspaper at a boot fair for a quid, not even realising it had half a page about women in aviation until I was reading it on train home. 1/3

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Front page of The Times Survey of British Aviation Sept 1956 Women in aviation article
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 4h
How fascinating! A new name to me too. Will start a Wikidata entry for her…
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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 12h
For the whole story of Lalitha's life, see @shlead.bsky.social's excellent book: shanthamohan.com/roots-and-wi...
Roots and Wings-Second Edition
I am thrilled to announce the release of the second edition of my book, “Roots and Wings: Inspiring Stories of Indian Women in Engineering” on Amazon. The audience for this edition is m…
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 12h
Miriam Violet Griffith, UK electrical engineer, technical author, early expert on ground source heat pumps. Educated @ Cheltenham Ladies College. Physics degree Bedford College Elected Fellow @ Institute of Physics @physicsnews.bsky.social b4 1949 b. #OTD 11 Oct 1911 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_...
no photo image. Black question mark with inner curve made of a white silhouette of a woman in profile with a bun, facing image right
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 13h
Ayyalasomayajula Lalitha #India’s 1st Woman #ElectricalEngineer. Widowed young, her family supported her career in power transmission equipment, incl protective gear, substation & generator design incl Bhakra Nangal Dam @wes1919.bsky.social member d. #OTD 12 Oct 1979 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayyalas...
Ayyalasomayajula Lalitha as a v young woman in slightly ripped B&W photo
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 1d
Olwen Wooster telecomms engineer. #WWII cypher officer in Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force. 1954 ground comms 4 TransAustralia Airlines. 1964 ran computing systems connecting 300 gambling shops w' racecourses. Member of Society Women Engineers & Soroptimists. d. #OTD 11 Oct 1981 bit.ly/31IRG1H
Olwen Wooster in B&W headshot
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 1d
Hattie T. Scott Peterson. In 1946 1st African-American woman to earn bachelor's degree in civil engineering. 1947 Survey & cartographic #engineer for US Geological Survey. 1954 1st woman engineer to join local US Army Corps of Engineers. #WomenInSTEM b. #OTD 11 Oct 1913 bit.ly/3hKbQLJ
Hattie T. Scott Peterson in B&W headshot photo
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 1d
Guillermina Uribe Bone 1948 1st woman to earn degree in civil engineering @ Nat Uni of #Colombia #Bogota. 1949 joined Nat Buildings @ Ministry of Works, worked on Cali Post Office & Santa Marta Olympic Stadium. 2024 building @ Uni named in honour. d. #OTD 11 Oct 2018 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiller...
Guillermina Uribe Bone in (1940s?) B&W formal headshot #WomenInSTEM
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 1d
Raye Montague US naval engineer created 1st computer-generated draft of US naval ship. 1956 grad Arkansas Ag Mech & Normal College Joined Navy as clerk, sat next 2 UNIVAC I computer, stepped in to run machine, rose to be program director for NAVSEA d #OTD 10 Oct 2018 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raye_Mo...
Raye Montague in colour photo taken in 2017
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 2d
Marion Rice Hart 1st woman chemical engineering grad @ MIT Worked as physicist @ GEC, then Arizona copper mine, radio operator on B-17, ran locomotive on Southern Pacific, took up art, then sailed round world. #WWII joined Army Signal Corps. b. #OTD 10 Oct 1891 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_...
Marion Rice Hart at wheel of a boat, fag hanging out of mouth in B&W photo
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 2d
Madeleine Charnaux French war correspondent, sculptor, aviator. Flying licence 1934 won records & long distance prizes 17k km air travel. Awarded Legion of Honour #WWII 1939 Vichy France ran school training women aircraft mechanics &radio operators d #OTD 10 Oct 1943 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelei...
Madeleine Charnaux in B&W head & shoulders photo
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 2d
Evelyn Roxburgh is thought to be 1st woman to qualify as an #electrical #engineer in #Scotland. Worked for Metropolitan Vickers & HM Factory Inspectorate, retrained as skilled #radiographer & stalwart of @womensinstitute.bsky.social in retirement. b. #OTD 10 Oct 1896 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_...
no photo image. Black question mark with inner curve made of a white silhouette of a woman in profile with a bun, facing image right
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 2d
Gabrielle Borthwick #motorist & #mechanic. 1 of early wealthy women motorists to set up garage & school for teaching men & women to drive cars. Chair of exec committee for Women’s Automobile & Sports Association assoc'd with Royal Automobile Club. d. #OTD 10 Oct 1952 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel...
Gabrielle Borthwick in B&W head & shoulders photo. #WomenInSTEM
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 2d
Edith Mary Douglas 1st woman to fly in experimental bomber. Later Director of Swanwick Shipyard "more women should go in for planning yachts.. potential homes & should be planned from the woman’s point of view" @wes1919.bsky.social President 1938-9 b #OTD 13 Nov 1877 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_M...
Edith Mary Douglas in B&W head & shoulders photo
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 3d
Sarah Hengler collaborated with Madame Saqui, a celebrated tightrope walker of the day, providing fireworksto create a spectacular backdrop for Saqui's act en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_... Hengler toured with her own family, supplying fireworks to accompany their acrobatic rope performances.
Madame Saqui running down a tightrope at Vauxhall Gardens in 1810s, surrounded by fireworks designed by Sarah Hengler #WomenInSTEM #FeministSky #circus #fireworks
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 3d
Thos Hood's Ode to Madam Hengler: While hoaxed astronomers look up & stare From tall observatories, dumb & dizzy To see a Squib in Cassiopeia’s Chair! A Serpent wriggling into Charles’s Wain! A Roman Candle lighting the Great Bear! Rocket tangled in Diana’s train,& Crackers stuck in Berenice’s Hair!
Sarah, Madame Hengler, B&W portrait depicting her as a young woman made up from the fireworks of the business she ran for 40 years - and eventally died from when her home and fireworks factory caught fire and she died in the blaze. #WomenInSTEM #FeministSky #circus #fireworks
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 3d
Sarah Hengler, Fire Queen of Vauxhall Gardens, The King's Pyrotechnic. Businesswoman, firework artist. Matriarch of Hengler's Circus family. Invented rocket element for early shore to ship lifesaving equipment. d. #OTD 9 Oct 1845 in home & fireworks factory fire en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_H...
Sarah, Madame Hengler, portrait depicting her as a young woman made up from the fireworks of the business she ran for 40 years - and eventally died from when her home and fireworks factory caught fire and she died in the blaze. #WomenInSTEM #FeministSky #circus #fireworks
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 3d
Frances Bradfield aeronautical engineer. 1918 recruited to Royal Aircraft Establishment. By end #WWII 1 of 3 women principal scientific officers working for Ministry of Aircraft Production. 1948 1st woman winner of Royal Aero Society Bronze Medal. b. #OTD 9 Oct 1895 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances...
Frances Bradfield as a very young woman in a sailor suit. B&W head & shoulders photo. #WomenInSTEM
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 3d
Minnie Elizabeth (Betty) Barclay Lindsay, earned mechanical engineering degree @edinburghuni.bsky.social (probably 2nd woman engineering graduate). Worked mainly as a civil engineer in Albania on an Anti-Malarial Mission 1926-39. b. #OTD 9 Oct 1897 in China www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-...
Betty Lindsay in topee, tie and trousers stood between two men out doing field work
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 3d
Germaine Benoit French #chemicalengineer #pharmacologist #biologist #medicalchemist Worked on study of sympathomimetic drugs. 1923 grad @chimieparistechpsl.bsky.social Spent much of career @institutpasteur.bsky.social Won Prix Louis 1934, PhD 1942. b. #OTD 9 Oct 1901 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germain...
Germaine Benoit in B&W headshot wearing a lab coat #WomenInSTEM
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 3d
Amalia Celia Figueredo aviator. 1st woman in #Argentina & possibly Latin America to earn pilot's license. 1914 passed test, skilled in aerobatics. 1964 on 50th anniversary of earning license, awarded honorary designation of Military Pilot. d. #OTD 8 Oct 1985 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalia_...
Amalia Celia Figueredo in B&W photo sat in plane fuselage wearing thick polo neck jumper
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 4d
Whilst heavily pregnant Carlotta Bollée translated for husband French early car manufacturer Léon Bollée & aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright when they rebuilt Wright Flyer @ Bollée factory in 1908. Flew with Wright #OTD 8 Oct 1908. After Léon died, ran factory www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-...
Carlotta Bollée in B&W early C20th photo wearing a hat and leg 'o mutton sleeves
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