When the Brooklyn Bridge opened on May 24th, 1883, Emily Warren Roebling was the first to cross but without Emily the bridge may never have been completed.
Tag: women in STEM
Katharina “Käthe” Paulus
On 22 October 1797, pioneering balloonist André-Jacques Garnerin became the modern world's first successful parachutist, but it wasn’t until 1910 women began contributing to both the birth and evolution of skydiving which today is one of the most popular extreme sports.
Dr Gladys West
Dr Gladys Mae West is an American mathematician known now for her contributions to the work on what came to be known as the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Josephine Cochran
If you are anything like me and you hate washing up then a poster of Josephine Cochran should be above your dishwasher, given that she is partly responsible for its creation
Ada Lovelace.
Ada Lovelace is a woman who could have easily been overshadowed by the men in her life, from her father the famous poet Lord Byron to her friends who included Charles Babbage and Michael Faraday, but through her own intelligence, grit, and determination that isn’t the case.