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Maria Artini 1894-1951 #Italian engineer 1918 1st woman electrical engineering uni graduate in Italy 2nd woman graduate @ Polytec Uni of Milan. Worked 4 Edison energy @ #Milan helped design & construct country's 1st high-voltage (130 kV) power line in Brugherio-Parma en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_A...

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Lotten von Plomgren Swedish civil defence activist. 1884 1 of founders of Svenska kvinnoföreningen för fosterlandets försvar (Swedish Women's Assoc for Defence of Fatherland) president 1884-1914. Supported military defence, raised money 4 military. b #OTD 13 Oct 1831 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotten_...

Lotten von Plomgren later C19th B&W photograph printed inside an drawn oval frame with her name in a ribbon banner. plaited hair coiled on top of head.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Nearly as good as Beatrice Blore’s winged wheel grave stone @ninabake2.bsky.social

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Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of women in STEM. In our latest blogpost, our librarian Claudia celebrates the history of women dairy scientists and explores their representation in our collections. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

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Women in dairying: from dairymaids to leading scientists

A journey along our library's shelves reveals the changing role of women in dairying and cheesemaking, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 13/10/2026

They say Proxima Centauri b is lovely this time of the year! 🎥 ghoulproductionofficial on TikTok

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Not a post to “like” - 30 years later, I never engaged in physics as the male teacher started first class with “now then boys” to a mixed class. Have never forgotten that. Luckily I was born to be a historian!

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Katharine Burr Blodgett US physicist chemist. 1926 1st woman #physics PhD @ Cambridge. Invented nonreflective "invisible" glass for lenses used filming Gone with the Wind 1939. Later used for submarine periscopes & plane spy cameras in #WWII. d. #OTD 12 Oct 1979 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathari...

Irene Burr Blodgett using a machine to make lenses. B&W photo #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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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

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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 #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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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_...

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Nicole Girard-Mangin #WWI 1st woman medical doctor 2 serve in French Army. 1917 doctor-captain, director of training prog'm 4 nurses @ Edith Cavell Hospital Paris worked w Marie Curie's Radium Institute 2 train women as radiographers 4 war fronts.b. #OTD 11 Oct 1878 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_...

Nicole Girard-Mangin in #WWI military uniform B&W photo #WomenInSTEM #HistSTEM #HistSTEM #EiffelTower

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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...

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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

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🤣 good at a sound bite too!

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Hattie Scott Peterson 1946 1st African-American woman 2 earn bachelor's degree in civil engineering, @ Howard Uni. 1947 survey & cartographic engineer 4 US Geological Survey. 1954 1st woman engineer 2 join local US Army Corps of Engineers, flood risk reduction work b #OTD 11 Oct 1913 bit.ly/3hKbQLJ

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Henriette Delamarre de Monchaux #French #naturalist #geologist #paleontologist Specialist in faluns (marine deposits}. Several species of sea urchins named for her. Campaigned 4 women’s suffrage. 1/72 #WomenInSTEM proposed 2B added 2 #EiffelTower b. #OTD 11 Oct 1854 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriet...

Henriette Delamarre de Monchaux in 1908 in B&W photo. #WomenInSTEM #HistSTEM #HistSTEM #EiffelTower

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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 #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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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 #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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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 #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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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 #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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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_...

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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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Ersilia Fossati. Swiss politician. Member of Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland, campaigned for women's suffrage. When Switzerland eventually granted women federal vote in 1971, 1 of 1st 11 women elected to Grand Council of Ticino. d. #OTD 9 Oct 1999 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ersilia...

Ersilia Fossati in B&W photo wearing uniform of Frauenhilfsdienst (FHD), the Swiss Women's Army Auxiliary Service #WomensHistory

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Éliane Montel French physicist chemist. 1923 earned agrégation teaching qualification, 1926-7 voluntary worker in Marie Curie's laboratory. 1931 joined Paul Langevin's lab @ ESPCI, had child with him. Worked on gaseous ions mobility measures. b. #OTD 8 Oct 1898 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89l...

Éliane Montel in B&W photo #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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Marie Charpentier French mathematician. 1st woman to earn doctorate in pure maths in France, 2nd woman, after Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, to get faculty position in mathematics at university in France. d. #OTD 9 Oct 1994 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_C...

grainy B&W photo of marie Charpentier in Zurich in 1932 #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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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 #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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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 #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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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...

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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 #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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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 #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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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 #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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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 #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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Mary Engle Pennington US bacteriological chemist & refrigeration engineer. 1907 chief of Food Research Laboratory, estab to enforce 1906 Pure Food & Drug Act. Devt standards for processing chickens, then moved into household refrigeration. b. #OTD 8 Oct 1872 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_En...

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Velma Huskey computing pioneer. Information specialist @ NIST. 1948-52 technical writer @ Inst for Numerical Analysis @ UCLA. Editor @ IEEE Transactions on Computers. 1959 went to USSR for technical delegation in computers. Ada Lovelace biographer. b. #OTD 8 Oct 1917 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_H...

Velma Huskey in blurry b&W heatshot photo #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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#OnThisDay, 8 Oct 1952, USAF 2nd Lt Nurse Abbie Sweetwine uses military triage at the Harrow and Wealdstone train crash in London. She saves lives and paves the way for the UK’s use of paramedics. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory 🗃️ 1/2

Abbie Sweetwine preparing a plasma infusion at the site of the crash. She is a black woman, surrounded by white men.

A photo of the Harrow and Wealdstone crash, showing three passenger trains that had run into each other. There is debris two storeys high, and people searching the wreckage.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Their father was George Johnstone Stoney, physicist who coined term electron in 1891 for ‘fundamental unit quantity of electricity’. He moved the family to London in 1883 to ensure his daughters could access quality of higher education not available in Dublin @ time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

Edith (left), Florence (centre) and their father George Stoney. He has a magnificent white santa beard and in reading a book #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sorry to hear about your diagnosis - and wishing you well for your recovery.

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An amazing woman who never completed her degree due to boredom but later gained an MPhil. Her lifelong struggle with serious arthritis was no barrier to her work. Butland curves were/are seminal in computerising data processing.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Florence's medals & awards. OBE; 1914 Star with bar for service under fire; British War medal; Victory Medal w' oak leaf 4 mention in dispatches & @britishredcross.bsky.social Service Medal 4 war service 1914-18 Not sure where they are held - can anyone help? Edith's are @newnhamcollege.bsky.social

Dr. Florence Stoney's #medals & awards. Her #OBE; 1914 Star with bar for service under fire; British War medal; Victory Medal with oak leaf for mention in dispatches & her British Red Cross Service Medal for war service 1914-18 #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM

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Racer Kittie Knox was the first African-American to become a member of the League of American Wheelmen. Knox raced despite sometimes being denied access to races, restaurants, and hotels, and was known for her baggy trousers as well as her cycling ability. #BicycleBirthday October 7 (1874-1900)

Antique photo of Kittie Knox dressed in knickers posing standing with a bicycle.

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