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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... -
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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
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