Year Name What she did More info 350 Hypatia of Alexandría Invented the Hydrometer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia 1793 Hannah Slater First US Woman to file a patent for her improvements to cotton sewing thread. Issued to "Mrs. Samuel Slater" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Slater 1809 Mary Dixon Kies American inventor, patented a technique to weave straw with silk and thread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Dixon_Kies 1811 Sarah Maria Beach Invented a method for the safe piling of bridges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Guppy 1813 Tabitha Babitt American Toolmaker who invented the Circular Saw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabitha_Babbit 1842 Ada Lovelace Considered the creator of the 1st Algorithm. The first programmer, male or female. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace 1858 Florence Nightingale British nurse that revolutionized information display thanks to her statistics & mathematics knowledge https://www.fundaciontelefonica.com/2015/11/06/mujeres-pioneras-ciencia-educacion/ After her husband (a former naval scientist) died, she developed some ideas from a notebook he had left unfinished and designed a 1859 Mary J. Coston working naval signal flare. https://www.engineergirl.org/42022/Mary_Coston 1872 Mª Elena Maseras i Ribera 1st woman to be admitted in a spanish university https://www.fundaciontelefonica.com/2015/11/06/mujeres-pioneras-ciencia-educacion/ 1873 Helen Augusta Blanchard Filed 28 patents, 22 of which had to do with sewing machines https://www.engineergirl.org/42010/Helen_Blanchard She would have been the 1st Ph.D. in Chemistry from MIT but she was denied it as the MIT teachers didn't want that place to go to a 1875 Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards woman. She opened the Woman's Laboratory at MIT in 1876. 1879 Mary Walton Patented a device to minimize smoke poured into air. In 1891 she patented a device to minimize the noise generated by the city trains. https://www.engineergirl.org/42031/Mary-Walton British engineer and inventor. Studied Mathematics at Cambrige but was denied a degree. Women could only get Certificates of 1880 Hertha Marks Ayrton Completion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertha_Marks_Ayrton American chemist and refrigeration engineer. Studied Chemistry in the Univ. Penssylvania but was given a Certificate of Proficiency 1882 Mary Engle Pennington instead. 1883 Emily Warren Roebling Her husband, the engineer for the Brooklyn Bridge, got ill, and she learned from books and him to finish the building http://www.asce.org/templates/person-bio-detail.aspx?id=11203 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Charles_Pickering 1893 Henrietta Swan Leavitt Part of the group of "the Pickering Girls" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Computers https://sigarra.up.pt/up/pt/web_base.gera_pagina?p_pagina=estudantes%20da%20academia% 1894 Rita de Moraes Sarmento 1st woman to obtain an Engineering degree at the Technical University of Porto in Portugal. 1st Woman Engineer in Europe 20polit%C3%A9cnica%20do%20porto:%20rita%20de%20moraes%20sarmento 1897 Agnes Klingberg / Betzy Meyer 1st female Chemistry engineers at the Copenhagen Polytechnic Learning Center https://ida.dk/content/de-foerste-kvindelige-ingenioerer-agnes-og-betzy-pionerer 1901 Julie Arenholt 3rd female Chemistry engineer at the Copenhagen Polytechnic Learning Center 1903 Marie Curie 1st Physics Nobel Prize Winner (also 1911 in Chemistry) https://www.fundaciontelefonica.com/2015/11/06/mujeres-pioneras-ciencia-educacion/ 1st woman to receive a degree in civil engineering from Cornell University. After 12 years working as an engineer, she was not accepted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Stanton_Blatch_Barney as an Associate Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Shoe worked as an assistant to Lee De Forest, who invented the https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gn-aonJ- 1905 Nora Stanton Blatch Barney radio vacuum tube. AalhFNgk2aXugJwBuVVn6sbDYfhBGJNZ1PQ/edit#gid=0 1908 Alice Perry 1st female engineering graduate in Britain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Perry 1912 Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu One of the 1st recognized female engineers in Europe. Had to transfer from Bucharest to Berlin to do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisa_Leonida_Zamfirescu 1915 Emmy Noether Proves the Noether theorem (later published in 1918) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether 1st woman to earn an Electrical Engineering degree from MIT. Inventor of the "Graphical Calculator" for General Electric. Graduated in Mathematics and Astronomy in 1908. Teached physics for a while and then went on to MIT. 1st woman to teach (electrical) engineering at 1918 Edith Clarke the University of Texas in 1947. https://www.engineergirl.org/42005/Edith_Clarke 1921 Olive Dennis 1st woman member of the American Railway Engineering Association https://www.engineergirl.org/41754/Olive_Dennis Pioneered (with her husband) the field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, as well as Ergonomics. She redesigned the modern 1921 Lillian Moller Gilbreth kitchen to be more productive an easier to use (foot pedal trash, refrigerator door shelves and wall light switches) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Moller_Gilbreth#cite_note-Held2010-9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grete_Hermann http://www.frauen-im-aufbruch-ausstellung.de/en/women/grete-henry-hermann/ https://www.google.es/search?q=Grete_H_Hermann_01&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:CZP- 6wvW004qIjgOl3hfv2MAszcZNIwYnSPeiVKh4NYNfbEl61KFlIbN3TFC3fzSvwqvupn0oLkffydr2JUU 7fNJvSoSCQ6XeF-_1YwCzERQlnKSgl5poKhIJNxk0jBidI94Rcv- hOLat4_1EqEgmJUqHg1g19sRG4Fqau- gVzJioSCSXrUoWUhs3dEQle4ErxTLLOKhIJMULd_1NK_1Cq8RahqZ0fVDBisqEgm6mfSguR9_1Jx HTjUgCWn- 9GioSCWvYlRTt80m9ERqMARaMjuP3&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwilt47ZwdvZAhUKPhQKHXy2 1926 Grete Hermann Foundational paper for Computerized Algebra BXYQ9C8IHA&biw=2366&bih=1272&dpr=1#imgrc=k_7rC9bTTirhDM: 1st woman to become full member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Later at ENR she directed the "Post War Planning" for the 1927 Elsie Eaves development to be done when the war ended. https://www.engineergirl.org/41747/Elsie_Eaves 1929 Pilar Careaga y Basabe 1st female engineer in Spain https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilar_Careaga 1936 Inge Lehmann Deducted that the core of the Earth is solid floating into liquid and that the planet's magnetic pull comes from this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge_Lehmann 1940 Phyllis Fox Run a Differential Analyser on her own https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Fox 1943 <many> WREN Colossus operators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer 1943 Adele Goldstine Teacher of the "ENIAC 6". ENIAC Manual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldstine 1943 Klara Dan Von Neumann ENIAC & MANIAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klara_Dan_von_Neumann 1943 Augusta H. Teller ENIAC & MANIAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta_H._Teller 1943 Gertrude Blanch Mathematical Tables Project leader https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Blanch 1946 Marlyn Meltzer ENIAC 6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlyn_Meltzer 1946 Betty Holberton ENIAC 6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton 1946 Kathleen Antonelli ENIAC 6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Antonelli 1946 Ruth Teitelbaum ENIAC 6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Teitelbaum 1946 Jean Bartik ENIAC 6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bartik 1946 Frances Spence ENIAC 6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Spence 1947 Irma Wyman Missile Guidance Project at Willow Run Research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_Wyman ARC2 Computer Assembly Language creator 1948 Kathleen Booth Cofounder of School of Computer Science and Information Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Booth http://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/la-enciclopedia-mecanica-de-dona-angelita/?_ga=2. 1949 Ángela Ruiz Robles Inventor of the electronic book ("Enciclopedia Mecánica") and also the 1st woman to be granted a patent in Spain 144619388.875830831.1520432904-864627089.1520432904 1955 Ruth Davis Technical Director responsible of s system to manage US Navy operations. And many more similar posts later. https://www.engineergirl.org/57655/Ruth-Davis 1949 Grace Hopper 1st Compiler. The "Mother of COBOL" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper The second African-American woman in the U.S. to receive a PhD in mathematics. Worked for IBM on the Project Vanguard and Project 1949 Evelyn Boyd Granville Mercury space programs, analyzing orbits and developing computer procedures 1950 Ida Rhodes One of the pioneers in the analysis of systems of programming. She co-designed the C-10 language in the early 1950s for the UNIVAC I https://www.nap.edu/read/23394/chapter/13#73 1951 Esther M. Conwell Wrote a paper during her year at Bell Labs explaning the basic properties of semiconductors for William Shockley. http://ethw.org/Esther_Conwell 1952 Mary Coombs One of the first programmers on, and was the first female programmer on LEO, the first business computer Orbital calculations for the United States' Explorer 1 satellite were solved by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's all-female "computers", 1958 El equipo 100% femenino del Jet Propulsion Lab many of whom were recruited out of high school. 1959 M. Gertrude Rand 1st woman to receive the Optical Society of America's Edgar D. Tillyer Medal in recognition of her distinguished work in the field of vision https://www.engineergirl.org/42033/M-Gertrude-Rand 1960 Irmgard Flügge-Lotz 1st woman that became full professor of engineering at Stanford https://www.engineergirl.org/41743/Irmgard_Lotz The first female engineer at Jet