Ceryl
@politicdormouse.bsky.social
Historian Curator Wikimedian 🤓🏴🇪🇺 🗃️ Hic Sunt Dracones 🐑🍬 “Wiki Medium” ☠️ (you need to be dead before I write about you). History of #WomenInSTEM & other things that catch my interest. Every month is #WomensHistoryMonth here
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Aéroclub Féminin la Stella #French women's aeronautical org founded #OTD 10 Feb 1909 by Marie Surcouf, aeronaut campaigner for women's rights. La Stella included women balloonists who had long struggle to be recognised as professional & sportswomen in field of flying en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9...
February 10, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Aéroclub Féminin la Stella #French women's aeronautical org founded #OTD 10 Feb 1909 by Marie Surcouf, aeronaut campaigner for women's rights. La Stella included women balloonists who had long struggle to be recognised as professional & sportswomen in field of flying en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9...
Edith Clarke, 1st woman MS in electrical engineering @ MIT, 1st professional female electrical engineer in US. Worked in #Turkey. 1st woman professor of electrical engineering @ Uni of Texas #Austin. Specialised in electrical power system analysis. b. 10 Feb 1883 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_C...
February 10, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Edith Clarke, 1st woman MS in electrical engineering @ MIT, 1st professional female electrical engineer in US. Worked in #Turkey. 1st woman professor of electrical engineering @ Uni of Texas #Austin. Specialised in electrical power system analysis. b. 10 Feb 1883 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_C...
Dorothy Smith electrical engineer. Worked for Metropolitan-Vickers 1916-59, retiring after 43 years. 1958 was only 2nd woman to gain Full Membership of Institution of Electrical Engineers (1st was Hertha Ayrton in 1899) @wes1919.bsky.social member b. #OTD 10 Feb 1899 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...
February 10, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Dorothy Smith electrical engineer. Worked for Metropolitan-Vickers 1916-59, retiring after 43 years. 1958 was only 2nd woman to gain Full Membership of Institution of Electrical Engineers (1st was Hertha Ayrton in 1899) @wes1919.bsky.social member b. #OTD 10 Feb 1899 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...
Jane Winstone New Zealand aviator. Earned pilot's license age of 16. #WWII applied as pilot to Air Transport Auxiliary, paid own way to UK to join #ATA Aug 1942 delivering Hurricanes & Spitfires d. #OTD 10 Feb 1944 when Spitfire engine failed causing crash. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Wi...
February 10, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Jane Winstone New Zealand aviator. Earned pilot's license age of 16. #WWII applied as pilot to Air Transport Auxiliary, paid own way to UK to join #ATA Aug 1942 delivering Hurricanes & Spitfires d. #OTD 10 Feb 1944 when Spitfire engine failed causing crash. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Wi...
Emma Kirchner German photographer who lived & worked in Netherlands. 1st & for over 30 years, only professional woman photographer working in Delft area. "Talented portraitist whose photographs are striking for their artful compositions". d. #OTD 10 Feb 1909 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Ki...
February 10, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Emma Kirchner German photographer who lived & worked in Netherlands. 1st & for over 30 years, only professional woman photographer working in Delft area. "Talented portraitist whose photographs are striking for their artful compositions". d. #OTD 10 Feb 1909 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Ki...
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#OnThisDay, 10 Feb 1917, plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk becomes the first woman appointed as a professor in the Netherlands when she joins Utrecht University.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️
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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️
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February 10, 2026 at 9:00 AM
#OnThisDay, 10 Feb 1917, plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk becomes the first woman appointed as a professor in the Netherlands when she joins Utrecht University.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️
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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️
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Aéroclub Féminin la Stella #French women's aeronautical org founded #OTD 10 Feb 1909 by Marie Surcouf, aeronaut campaigner for women's rights. La Stella included women balloonists who had long struggle to be recognised as professional & sportswomen in field of flying en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9...
February 10, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Aéroclub Féminin la Stella #French women's aeronautical org founded #OTD 10 Feb 1909 by Marie Surcouf, aeronaut campaigner for women's rights. La Stella included women balloonists who had long struggle to be recognised as professional & sportswomen in field of flying en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9...
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Antoinette Lubaki (1895-?) Congo's 1st known named woman artist. Forerunner of modern art in Congo. Painted her watercolours of everyday life & local legends by candlelight at night, as no stories were allowed to be told during daylight en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine...
February 9, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Antoinette Lubaki (1895-?) Congo's 1st known named woman artist. Forerunner of modern art in Congo. Painted her watercolours of everyday life & local legends by candlelight at night, as no stories were allowed to be told during daylight en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine...
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Henrietta Vansittart #Victorian #inventor & #engineer "a remarkable personage with a great knowledge of #engineering matters & considerable versatility of talent". d. #OTD 8 Feb 1883. Fascinating longer read electrifyingwomen.org/the-long-rea... & en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriet...
February 8, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Henrietta Vansittart #Victorian #inventor & #engineer "a remarkable personage with a great knowledge of #engineering matters & considerable versatility of talent". d. #OTD 8 Feb 1883. Fascinating longer read electrifyingwomen.org/the-long-rea... & en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriet...
Antoinette Lubaki (1895-?) Congo's 1st known named woman artist. Forerunner of modern art in Congo. Painted her watercolours of everyday life & local legends by candlelight at night, as no stories were allowed to be told during daylight en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine...
February 9, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Antoinette Lubaki (1895-?) Congo's 1st known named woman artist. Forerunner of modern art in Congo. Painted her watercolours of everyday life & local legends by candlelight at night, as no stories were allowed to be told during daylight en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine...
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María Luisa Pérez-Soba, 1st woman agricultural engineer in #Galicia, 5th in #Spain. 1959 graduated w' degree in agricultural engineering. 1 of 2 women in class of 68 students. PhD 1963, worked @ A Coruña's Ministry of Agriculture. d. #OTD 8 Feb 2021 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%...
February 8, 2026 at 10:35 AM
María Luisa Pérez-Soba, 1st woman agricultural engineer in #Galicia, 5th in #Spain. 1959 graduated w' degree in agricultural engineering. 1 of 2 women in class of 68 students. PhD 1963, worked @ A Coruña's Ministry of Agriculture. d. #OTD 8 Feb 2021 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%...
Lou Alta Merrill (née Melton) "Woman Bridge Builder as good a civil engineer as any man in the United States". University of Colorado graduate & US Bureau of Public Roads bridge #engineer. Set up American Society of Women Engineers & Architects. b. 8 Feb 1895 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Alt...
February 8, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Lou Alta Merrill (née Melton) "Woman Bridge Builder as good a civil engineer as any man in the United States". University of Colorado graduate & US Bureau of Public Roads bridge #engineer. Set up American Society of Women Engineers & Architects. b. 8 Feb 1895 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Alt...
Henrietta Vansittart #Victorian #inventor & #engineer "a remarkable personage with a great knowledge of #engineering matters & considerable versatility of talent". d. #OTD 8 Feb 1883. Fascinating longer read electrifyingwomen.org/the-long-rea... & en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriet...
February 8, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Henrietta Vansittart #Victorian #inventor & #engineer "a remarkable personage with a great knowledge of #engineering matters & considerable versatility of talent". d. #OTD 8 Feb 1883. Fascinating longer read electrifyingwomen.org/the-long-rea... & en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriet...
Daphne Jackson #Nuclear #physicist & 1st UK female physics professor. "Imagine a society that would allow Marie Curie to stack shelves in a supermarket simply because she took a career break for family reasons". @wes1919.bsky.social President d #OTD 8 Feb 1991 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_...
February 8, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Daphne Jackson #Nuclear #physicist & 1st UK female physics professor. "Imagine a society that would allow Marie Curie to stack shelves in a supermarket simply because she took a career break for family reasons". @wes1919.bsky.social President d #OTD 8 Feb 1991 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_...
María Luisa Pérez-Soba, 1st woman agricultural engineer in #Galicia, 5th in #Spain. 1959 graduated w' degree in agricultural engineering. 1 of 2 women in class of 68 students. PhD 1963, worked @ A Coruña's Ministry of Agriculture. d. #OTD 8 Feb 2021 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%...
February 8, 2026 at 10:35 AM
María Luisa Pérez-Soba, 1st woman agricultural engineer in #Galicia, 5th in #Spain. 1959 graduated w' degree in agricultural engineering. 1 of 2 women in class of 68 students. PhD 1963, worked @ A Coruña's Ministry of Agriculture. d. #OTD 8 Feb 2021 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%...
M Elsa Gardner #AeronauticalEngineer in #WWI & #WWII “I took the Navy for Better or for Worse & I intend to stick by it (because I think it needs the work I can do)”. 1936 1st woman full member of Engineers Club of Dayton, joined UK @wes1919.bsky.social 1929 US rep. b #OTD 8 Feb 1894 bit.ly/2ypqFBw
February 8, 2026 at 10:19 AM
M Elsa Gardner #AeronauticalEngineer in #WWI & #WWII “I took the Navy for Better or for Worse & I intend to stick by it (because I think it needs the work I can do)”. 1936 1st woman full member of Engineers Club of Dayton, joined UK @wes1919.bsky.social 1929 US rep. b #OTD 8 Feb 1894 bit.ly/2ypqFBw
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Caroline Endres Diescher 1 of 1st women engineers in US. With father John Endres designed 2 funicular (cable railway) inclines in #Pittsburgh - Monongahela Incline & Mount Oliver Incline, opened 1870 & 1871. 1 milion people still use each year. d. #OTD 7 Feb 1930 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolin...
February 7, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Caroline Endres Diescher 1 of 1st women engineers in US. With father John Endres designed 2 funicular (cable railway) inclines in #Pittsburgh - Monongahela Incline & Mount Oliver Incline, opened 1870 & 1871. 1 milion people still use each year. d. #OTD 7 Feb 1930 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolin...
May Assheton Harbord 1912 1st woman to earn Aeronaut's Certificate in UK. Flew gas balloons, crossed English Channel repeatedly. Owned 2 balloons kept near #Battersea gas work. After crash landing, claimed was "only woman who has landed on the Continent on her head" d. #OTD 7 Feb 1928 bit.ly/3pKtIcQ
February 7, 2026 at 10:45 PM
May Assheton Harbord 1912 1st woman to earn Aeronaut's Certificate in UK. Flew gas balloons, crossed English Channel repeatedly. Owned 2 balloons kept near #Battersea gas work. After crash landing, claimed was "only woman who has landed on the Continent on her head" d. #OTD 7 Feb 1928 bit.ly/3pKtIcQ
Lin Lanying #Chinese electrical engineer materials scientist. Spent 8 yrs in US 1957 returned home, manufactured China's 1st monocrystalline silicon & mono-crystal furnace to extract silicon. Laid foundations for microelectronics & optoelectronics. b, #OTD 7 Feb 1918 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Lan...
February 7, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Lin Lanying #Chinese electrical engineer materials scientist. Spent 8 yrs in US 1957 returned home, manufactured China's 1st monocrystalline silicon & mono-crystal furnace to extract silicon. Laid foundations for microelectronics & optoelectronics. b, #OTD 7 Feb 1918 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Lan...
Christine Frederick US home economist. Experiments aimed @ improving household efficiency. Argued women's consumer role vital in mass-production economy. Books incl Household Engineering & Selling Mrs. Consumer justification of planned obsolescence b. #OTD 6 Feb 1883 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christi...
February 6, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Christine Frederick US home economist. Experiments aimed @ improving household efficiency. Argued women's consumer role vital in mass-production economy. Books incl Household Engineering & Selling Mrs. Consumer justification of planned obsolescence b. #OTD 6 Feb 1883 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christi...
1951 Rosemary West graduated in Engineering Sciences, only 3rd woman to do so, working for GEC until sacked after birth of child. Early microcomputer specialist @wes1919.bsky.social President 1982-3 championing women's rights to return to work d. 6 Feb 2013 www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-...
February 6, 2026 at 11:09 PM
1951 Rosemary West graduated in Engineering Sciences, only 3rd woman to do so, working for GEC until sacked after birth of child. Early microcomputer specialist @wes1919.bsky.social President 1982-3 championing women's rights to return to work d. 6 Feb 2013 www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-...
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Bip Pares #illustrator Created >600 book covers, esp golden age crime thrillers & iconic posters for Transport for London. 1934 designed cover of Electrical Assoc 4 Women's Electrical Handbook, ran for 5 editions. 1940 wrote/illustrated book on #Himalayan honeymoon. d. #OTD 4 Feb 1977 bit.ly/3Kjjo9d
February 4, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Bip Pares #illustrator Created >600 book covers, esp golden age crime thrillers & iconic posters for Transport for London. 1934 designed cover of Electrical Assoc 4 Women's Electrical Handbook, ran for 5 editions. 1940 wrote/illustrated book on #Himalayan honeymoon. d. #OTD 4 Feb 1977 bit.ly/3Kjjo9d
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Campaigning Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson said in 1934 "that the twin keys to women’s earthly paradise were the Vote & Electricity" for help in their homes & education to make best use of the help that electricity offers. d. #OTD 6 Feb 1947 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_W...
February 6, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Campaigning Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson said in 1934 "that the twin keys to women’s earthly paradise were the Vote & Electricity" for help in their homes & education to make best use of the help that electricity offers. d. #OTD 6 Feb 1947 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_W...
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Enough is Enough! A talk on the history of nursing cartoons from 1900 to 1980. Join historian Dr Sue Hawkins, cartoonist Cath Jackson, graphic novel editor Corinne Pearlman and Holly Burrows (Cartoon Museum).
🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing
🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing
February 6, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Enough is Enough! A talk on the history of nursing cartoons from 1900 to 1980. Join historian Dr Sue Hawkins, cartoonist Cath Jackson, graphic novel editor Corinne Pearlman and Holly Burrows (Cartoon Museum).
🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing
🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing