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2019
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Electrifying Women 5 Key Themes: Collaboration
Women have played a long and important role in engineering. In the UK, the Women's Engineering Society was founded in 1919, but even before then there are examples of women working in engineering roles. The first video in our series examining the key themes in the history of women in...Research Retold ; Gooday, Graeme ; Rees Koerner, Emily
inventor, Women's Engineering Society, industry, engineering, and women in STEM
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2019
Video
Electrifying Women 5 Key Themes: Resourcefulness
Women have played a long and important role in engineering. In the UK, the Women's Engineering Society was founded in 1919, but even before then there are examples of women working in engineering roles. The second video in our series examining the key themes in the history of women in... -
2019
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Electrifying Women 5 Key Themes: Innovation
Women have played a long and important role in engineering. In the UK, the Women's Engineering Society was founded in 1919, but even before then there are examples of women working in engineering roles. The third video in our series examining the key themes in the history of women in... -
2019
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Electrifying Women 5 Key Themes: Activism
Women have played a long and important role in engineering. In the UK, the Women's Engineering Society was founded in 1919, but even before then there are examples of women working in engineering roles. The fourth video in our series examining the key themes in the history of women in... -
2019
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Electrifying Women 5 Key Themes: Networking
Women have played a long and important role in engineering. In the UK, the Women's Engineering Society was founded in 1919, but even before then there are examples of women working in engineering roles. The fifth and final video in our series examining the key themes in the history of... -
2018
Magazine article
Towards a Longer History of British Women in Engineering
Eilzabeth Bruton and Graeme Gooday discuss women in engineering before, during, and after the foundation of the Women's Engineering Society in 1919.Bruton, Elizabeth ; Gooday, Graeme
First World War, Women's Engineering Society, industry, technology, engineer, twentieth century, engineering, gender, and women in STEM
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2020
Blog post
Reflections on the Electrifying Women Project and the WES Centenary
In June 2019, to coincide with the centenary of the Women’s Engineering Society (WES), the Electrifying Women project was launched at the Science Museum, marking the start of an exciting journey into the history of women in engineering. The primary team for the project consisted of Principal Investigator, Graeme Gooday...Rees Koerner, Emily ; Bruton, Elizabeth ; Gooday, Graeme
industry, Women’s Engineering Society, engineer, engineering, and women in STEM
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2023
Journal article
1876 and All That: the ‘Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus’ as a case study in crowd-sourced international public science
Some historians of the ‘Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus’ exhibited in 1876 interpret its principal significance as catalysing the eventual transformation of science collections in the (South) Kensington Museum into London’s present-day Science Museum. Debates about that nexus have not, however, noted that this exhibition was an international crowd-sourced...Gooday, Graeme ; King, Alexander ; Spurna, Nela
science museum, curation, exhibition, women in STEM, and scientific instruments
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2023
Journal article
Energising connections in museum collections
The task of inter-connecting artefacts within the broad category of ‘energy’ across multiple heritage collections raises very significant challenges. Energy per se is itself invisible, manifested only in a bewildering diversity of technological mediations of its acquisition, storage or transformation from one form to another (e.g. chemical to thermal, or...Gooday, Graeme ; Little, Kylea ; Musesengwe, Bernard ; (Deceased), Cameron Tailford
photography, digital collections, energy, research, and film