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Adventures in aeronautical design : the life of Hilda M. Lyon (2020)

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Biographies Women engineers Aeronautics; aviation Women and technology Engineers 20th century Great Britain Hilda M. Lyon

This is the first full biography of the life and work of Hilda Margaret Lyon, a talented mathematician and aeronautical designer. She was not ‘merely’ a trailblazing woman in engineering at a time when women were not expected to be engineers, but also a technical pioneer, respected in her field. She contributed significant technological advances during the early days of aviation. Hilda Lyon helped design the ill-fated R101 airship at the massive Cardington airship sheds, studied in the USA and pre-war Germany before becoming one of the select band of female scientific civil servants at the Royal Aircraft Establishment. She worked to ensure the safety of aeroplanes and submarines in the Second World War. In her own lifetime she was well known for her analytical expertise but now, some 70 years after her untimely death, her story is only just beginning to re-emerge onto the public arena. She was a remarkable Yorkshirewoman and a significant engineer, deserving of more widespread recognition today. (Amazon)

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Authors & Contributors
Mørk Røstvik, Camilla
Louise Innes
Richard J. Byrom
Rubio, D.
Ruiz i Pedrol, Arnau
Irina Antoshchuk
Journals
International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Technology's Stories
Technology and Culture
Research in the History of Technology
Quaderns d'Història de l'Enginyeria
Publishers
IEEE
Air World
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Society
Gerald M. Beesley
Anthem Press, an imprint of Wimbledon Publishing
Railway & Canal Historical Society
Concepts
Engineers
Biographies
Women and technology
Women in engineering
Women engineers
Civil engineering
People
Sir Alan John Cobham
Hawkshaw, John
Thomas Pullinger
Ulery, Dana
Sir William Fairbairn
Maudslay, Henry
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Spain
Russia
Catalonia (Spain)
Colombia
Institutions
VKontakte
Electrical Association for Women
California Institute of Technology. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
University of Michigan
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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