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MysterE:
National Engineers Week Salutes
Women’s History Month
In celebration of March as Women's History Month, our featured engineers
and scientists were:
- The first American woman to receive a
degree in engineering (from the University of California, Berkeley, in civil engineering).
Elizabeth Bragg
- Wrote a scientific paper in 1843 that
anticipated the development of computer software, artificial intelligence, and computer
music..
Ada Byron Lovelace
- Pioneered the field of environmental
engineering with her groundbreaking research in water contamination in 1870.
Ellen Swallow Richards
- The inventor of the windshield wiper.
Mary Anderson
- Inventor of the insulated train car,
cooled with ice, that allowed for the first time the long-distance transportation of
perishable food.
Mary Engle Pennington
- Discovered the polymade solvent which
led to the production of "Kevlar."
Stephanie Kwolik
- The inventor of the Barbie doll.
Ruth Handler
- The 1985 flight engineer on the Space
Shuttle Atlantis. A civil/environmental engineer, now Project Manager for an innovative
satellite program that monitors the health of global oceans.
Dr. Mary L. Cleave
- The Secretary of the Air Force, formerly
head of MIT’s Fluid Dynamics Research Laboratory.
Dr. Sheila E. Widnall
- Invented an anti-jamming device for use
against Nazi radar.
Hedy Lamar
Check this space soon for a new MysterE
puzzler.
You can still find the solution to our
previous contest, Myster "e" mystery match-ups, and
contest winner, mechanical engineer Susan Dillon.
Read about our two former MysterE
guests Alfred Hitchcock and Rowan
Atkinson.
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