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1780–1872 - Mary Somerville, 1878BC – Aganice, 415AD – Hypatia, 1834 – Ada Byron Lovelace, known as the “Queen of 19th philosopher in the court of philosopher, mathematician daughter of Lord Byron, Century Science,” gifted in Pharoah Sesotris, computed and astronomer published a paper predicting the position of the planets in , artificial math, she became famous for hieroglyphs intelligence and computer her pop science books. Oxford music named a college after her

Irene Peden, Univeristy of Washington 1826-1902 - Martha J Coston, in the 1960's and 1970's and was the first woman Mechanical , widow and mother of 4, invented allowed to work in the interior of Antarctica in signal flares used by the US 1970. Her successful completion of the Navy during the Civil war experiment opened the door to allowing other women to do research there today.

1840-1922 – Helen Augusta Deborah Amato, Blanchard “Lady Edison” Aerospace held 28 US patents, invented , computer programmer, the zig-zag sewing machine Engineer: designed the MARK series of "Prepare now at Harvard in 1944 and coined the for opportunities term "bug" for a computer that will come to fault when a moth caused you later." a hardware fault. 1841-1902 – Emily Warren Roebling took over her ill husband’s project of building the Brooklyn Bridge

Iota Sigma Pi - Ι Σ Π - national honor society for women , "I hope all in chemistry was founded young girls will give in 1902 1883-1973 – Nara Stanton Blatch, civil engineer, who themselves permission to campaigned against sexual dream about any vocation." discrimination in engineering institutions

Dorothy Parker, "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses." 1895 – Bertha Lamme Feicht, 1st woman engineer at Westinghouse and assisted her husband and brother in developing the Niagara Falls Over 45% of girls, given 5 career Power Plant choices, selected being a personal assistant to a celebrity over Anita Borg, “Around being a CEO the world, women (braincake.org) are not full partners 1903 – Marie Curie. 1st woman to receive the Nobel prize in in driving the Chemistry, 1911 - 1st woman to receive the Nobel prize in creation of new Physics technology that will define their lives." , inventor and industrial engineer for 1914–2000 – Hedy Lamarr, interviewed over 4000 women to design the actress, held a patent for technology which is the proper height for stoves, sinks and other kitchen foundation for today’s wireless networks fixtures and was a leader in what we know today as ergonomics.

1986 – Nancy Fitzroy, a 1963 – Society of Women General Electric engineer, 1983 – is the 1987 – Anita Borg founded publishes its first became the first woman first American woman in the Institute for Women in edition of “A Profile of a president of the American space Technology Woman Engineer” Society of Mechanical Engineers