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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: 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... -
2020
Blog post
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
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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
