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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
Lady Anne Saville (Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg) 1913 invented "automatic balancing bed" which prevented sea sickness. 1st woman to attempt & to die in transatlantic flight as passenger in her plane, the St. Raphael. d. #OTD 31 Aug 1927 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes...
Marjorie Mallik née Oates 1st female student @SheffMechEng taking degree in 1940s as mature student. Active member of @wes1919.bsky.social in 1960s, organised translators for 2nd International Conference for Women Engineers & Scientists in 1967 d. #OTD 31 Aug 1998 www.sheffield.ac.uk/mecheng/1.71...
A woman dispatch rider of the Royal Air Force on her motorcycle and sidecar outside one of the Duxford hangars c. 1918. (www.iwm.org.uk/collections/... ) and the article in 'Motor Cycling' 07.05.1918 'Training Women Motorcyclists for the Army'.
Rajni Kaul Indian-born UK broadcaster radio presenter. 1st woman staffer @ BBC Hindi Service, 1961 1st woman to read news bulletin in Hindi on network. Presented Indradhanush children's prog, known as Rajni didi. Librarian w' mantra "A book a day" d. #OTD 31 Aug 2021 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajni_K...
Hélène Mallebrancke 1st female #Belgian civil #engineer graduate at #Ghent University. 1 of 1st #womenengineers in #Belgium. #WWII involved in Belgian Resistance, keeping Allied #telecomms operational against huge odds whilst terminally ill. d. OTD 30 Aug 1940 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9...
Margot Taulé 1st woman engineer & architect in #DominicanRepublic. 1948 graduated Universidad de Santo Domingo. Structural engineer for Dominican National Congress building. 1966 founding staff member @ Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena. b. #OTD 30 Aug 1920 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_...
Hélène Mallebrancke 1st female #Belgian civil #engineer graduate at #Ghent University. 1 of 1st #womenengineers in #Belgium. #WWII involved in Belgian Resistance, keeping Allied #telecomms operational against huge odds whilst terminally ill. d. OTD 30 Aug 1940 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9...
Its been forever since I did a #FollowFriday so this is by way of thanks to @ninabake2.bsky.social @womenridersofyore.bsky.social @debsadelight.bsky.social @dreadships.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @merryrobin.bsky.social robin for posting and sharing things that feed my inner geek!
President's badge presented to @wes1919.bsky.social #OTD 29 Aug 1964 by Dorothy Pile (President 1954-5) #metallurgist 1st woman Honorary Fellow of Institution of Metallurgists, Freeman of City of #London Member of Goldsmiths en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy... www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-...
Alice Recoque French computer scientist, computer engineer & computer architecture specialist. Graduated @espciparispsl.bsky.social 1954. 1950/60/70s worked on mini-computers CAB500, then Mitra. 1970s led research focused on artificial intelligence b #OTD 29 Aug 1929 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_R...
