Women's Engineering Society

The list Women's Engineering Society includes Beatrice Shilling, Kathleen Lonsdale, Charles Algernon Parsons, Amy Johnson and Verena Holmes. The list consists of 111 members and 1 sublist.

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Verena Holmes

English mechanical engineer

Overview: Verena Winifred Holmes (23 June 1889 – 20 February 1964) was an English mechanical engineer and multi-field inventor, the first woman member elected to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (1924) and ...

Date of birth: 23 June 1889

Date of death: 20 February 1964

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Inventor

Gender: Female

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Members of the Women's Engineering Society 64T

Presidents of the Women's Engineering Society 27T

20th-century engineers 964T
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Olive Dennis

American engineer (1885-1957)

Overview: Olive Wetzel Dennis (November 20, 1885 – November 5, 1957) was an engineer whose design innovations changed the nature of railway travel. Born in Thurlow, Pennsylvania, she grew up in Baltimore.

Date of birth: 20 November 1885

Date of death: 5 November 1957

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

Gender: Female

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Members of the Women's Engineering Society 64T

20th-century American inventors 1,114T

20th-century women engineers 195T
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Beatrice Shilling

British aeronautical engineer

Overview: Beatrice (Tilly) Shilling OBE PhD MSc CEng (8 March 1909 – 18 November 1990) was a British aeronautical engineer and amateur racing driver. During the Second World War, she designed and developed "Miss ...

Date of birth: 8 March 1909

Date of death: 18 November 1990

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Motor Biking

Gender: Female

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Members of the Women's Engineering Society 64T

20th-century inventors 654T

British women engineers 96T
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Mary Bailey (aviator)

Anglo-Irish aviator

Overview: Dame Mary Bailey, Lady Bailey, DBE (1 December 1890 – 29 July 1960), née Westenra, was an Irish woman, known as one of the finest aviatrices of her time, who "personally guided a plane from England to ...

Date of birth: 1 December 1890

Date of death: 29 July 1960

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Aviator

Gender: Female

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British female aviation record holders 11T

Members of the Women's Engineering Society 64T

British aviation record holders 78T
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Kathleen Lonsdale

British crystallographer

Overview: Dame Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS (née Yardley; 28 January 1903 – 1 April 1971) was an Irish pacifist, prison reformer and crystallographer. She proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray ...

Date of birth: 28 January 1903

Date of death: 1 April 1971

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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20th-century British women scientists 299T

Members of the Women's Engineering Society 64T

British women chemists 38T
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Charles Algernon Parsons

English engineer (1854–1931)

Overview: Hon. Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, OM, KCB, FRS (13 June 1854 – 11 February 1931) was an Anglo-Irish engineer, best known for his invention of the compound steam turbine, and as the namesake of ...

Date of birth: 13 June 1854

Date of death: 11 February 1931

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Scientist

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19th-century Anglo-Irish people 176T

British steam engine engineers 33T

Engineers from Tyne and Wear 20T
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Amy Johnson

Pioneering English aviator

Overview: Amy Johnson CBE (1 July 1903 – 5 January 1941) was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia.

Date of birth: 1 July 1903

Date of death: 5 January 1941

Age: 37 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Engineer

Gender: Female

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British female aviation record holders 11T

Members of the Women's Engineering Society 64T

Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1941 28T
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Eleanor Shelley-Rolls

British engineer

Overview: Eleanor Georgiana Shelley-Rolls (9 October 1872 – 15 September 1961) was one of the original signatories of the Women's Engineering Society founding documents. She was a keen hot air balloonist.

Date of birth: 9 October 1872

Date of death: 15 September 1961

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Engineer

Gender: Female

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Rolls family 11T

Members of the Women's Engineering Society 64T

Wives of baronets 204T
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Margaret, Lady Moir

Engineer and campaigner

Overview: Margaret, Lady Moir, OBE (née Margaret Bruce Pennycook) (10 January 1864 – 5 October 1942) was a Scottish lathe operator, engineer, a workers' relief organiser, an employment campaigner, and a founder ...

Date of birth: 10 January 1864

Date of death: 5 October 1942

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Scottish women engineers 8T

Members of the Women's Engineering Society 64T

Presidents of the Women's Engineering Society 27T
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Edith Anne Stoney

Anglo-Irish medical physicist

Overview: Edith Anne Stoney (6 January 1869 – 25 June 1938) was a physicist born in Dublin in an old-established Anglo-Irish scientific family. She is considered to be the first woman medical physicist.

Date of birth: 6 January 1869

Date of death: 25 June 1938

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Female

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19th-century British women scientists 74T

20th-century British women scientists 299T

19th-century Irish scientists 14T
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Maxine (Blossom) Miles

English aircraft engineer

Overview: Maxine "Blossom" Miles, born 22 September 1901 as Maxine Forbes-Robertson, was a British aviation engineer, socialite, and businesswoman. She was born into a well-known family of actors. She became ...

Date of birth: 19 October 1901

Date of death: 7 April 1984

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Engineer

Gender: Female

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British debutantes 68T

Members of the Women's Engineering Society 64T

Daughters of knights 97T
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Florence Violet McKenzie

Australian electrical engineer (1890–1982)

Overview: Florence Violet McKenzie OBE (née Granville; 28 September 1890 or 1892 – 23 May 1982), affectionately known as "Mrs Mac", was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency ...

Date of birth: 28 September 1890

Date of death: 23 May 1982

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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Members of the Women's Engineering Society 64T

20th-century Australian engineers 53T

20th-century Australian women 533T
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Constance Tipper

British metallurgist

Overview: Constance Tipper (born Constance Fligg Elam; 16 February 1894 – 14 December 1995) was an English metallurgist and crystallographer. She investigated brittle fracture and the ductile-brittle transition ...

Date of birth: 6 February 1894

Date of death: 14 December 1995

Age: 101 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Engineer

Gender: Female

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Members of the Women's Engineering Society 64T

Women centenarians 1,059T

British women engineers 96T
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Ruth Rowland Nichols

American aviation pioneer

Overview: Ruth Rowland Nichols (February 23, 1901 – September 25, 1960) was an American aviation pioneer. She is the only woman yet to hold simultaneous world records for speed, altitude, and distance for a female ...

Date of birth: 23 February 1901

Date of death: 25 September 1960

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Aviator

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1960 suicides 22T

Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T

American female aviation record holders 43T
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Helena Normanton

British barrister

Overview: Helena Florence Normanton, KC (14 December 1882 – 14 October 1957) was the first woman to practise as a barrister in England. In November 1922, she was the second woman to be called to the Bar of England ...

Date of birth: 14 December 1882

Date of death: 14 October 1957

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Attorney

Gender: Female

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20th-century women lawyers 409T

Members of the Women's Engineering Society 64T

20th-century English lawyers 387T
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Victoria Drummond

first woman marine engineer in Britain and first woman member of Institute of Marine Engineers

Overview: Victoria Alexandrina Drummond MBE (14 October 1894 – 25 December 1978), was the first woman marine engineer in the UK and the first woman member of Institute of Marine Engineers. In World War II she served ...

Date of birth: 14 October 1894

Date of death: 25 December 1978

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Engineer

Gender: Female

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British marine engineers 38T

Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame inductees 31T

Scottish women engineers 8T
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Betty Lindsay

Scottish civil engineer, working in Albania

Overview: Betty Lindsay (Minnie Elizabeth Barclay Lindsay) (9 October 1897 – 11 January 1953) was an early professional civil engineer working in Albania and, in 1921, may have been only the second female engineering ...

Date of death: 11 January 1953

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Scottish women engineers 18T

20th-century women engineers 259T

Malariologists 108T
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Joy Ferguson

Aviator and technician

Overview: Irene Joy Ferguson (1915 – 1974) was an electrical technician who worked as a scientific civil servant in the Ministries of Aircraft Production and Supply. During the Second World War, they flew aircraft ...

Date of birth: 1915

Date of death: 1974

Age: 58 (age at death)

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British women aviators 63T

Transgender military personnel 50T

British women in World War II 133T
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Lesley Souter

Engineer, first female electrical engineering student at the University of Glasgow

Overview: Lesley Scott Souter (23 October 1917 – 21 April 1981) was the first female electrical engineering student at the University of Glasgow, graduating in 1940.

Date of birth: 23 October 1917

Date of death: 21 April 1981

Age: 63 (age at death)

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Kathleen Mary Cook

British mechanical engineer

Overview: Kathleen Mary Cook (25 August 1910–1971) was a mechanical engineer who was president of the Women's Engineering Society from 1955–1956. Her father, P. V. Cook, who was also a mechanical engineer, worked ...

Date of birth: 25 August 1910

Date of death: 1971

Age: 60 (age at death)

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Presidents of the Women's Engineering Society 33T

British mechanical engineers 135T

People from Hendon 116T