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2019
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Electrifying Women 5 Key Themes: Collaboration Learning Resource
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2019
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Electrifying Women 5 Key Themes: Innovation Learning Resource
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2020
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The Long Read: Discovering the Victorian Engineer Henrietta Vansittart, part 1
In the third video of the Electrifying Women: 5 Key themes series, we talked about how women invented and innovated before significant new opportunities opened up for them as engineers in the first half of the 20th century. We highlighted the career of Hertha Ayrton, who was elected the first...Rees Koerner, Emily
women in STEM, propeller , Royal Navy, engineer, twentieth century, Victorian, engineering, pamphlet, industry, and Henrietta Vansittart
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2020
Blog post
The Long Read: Discovering the Victorian Engineer Henrietta Vansittart, part 2
In my previous blog, I highlighted the enigmatic life and career of the Victorian naval engineer Henrietta Vansittart (1833-1883), who I had been researching as part of the Electrifying Women project on the history of women in engineering. I found myself intrigued by this self-trained engineer, who had been introduced...Rees Koerner, Emily
women in STEM, Henrietta Vansittart, Royal Navy, engineer, twentieth century, Victorian, engineering, invention, propeller, and industry