Magnificent Women and Their Revolutionary Machines

The lost stories of Britain's boundary-breaking women of engineering. Marks the centenary of the Women's Engineering Society.

Summary

A centenary tribute to Britain’s trailblazing, boundary-breaking women engineers

Additional text

Never before told story of Britain’s first female engineers, marking the centenary of Women’s Engineering Society. Henrietta Heald has been shortlisted for the H. W. Fisher Best First Biography Prize and the Portico Prize for non-fiction. For fans of Lara Feigel, Adam Rutherford, Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly, The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel, Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science – And the World by Rachel Swaby. Beautifully illustrated with black-and-white archive photographs.

Product details

• Authors: Henrietta Heald
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781783526604
• ISBN: 978-1-78352-660-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, HISTORY / Women, Gender studies: women, History of engineering & technology, Gender studies: women & girls, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Biography: adventurers & explorers