@CoerverEW lots to think about on the Coerver Virtual Intro course tonight. Great stuff can’t wait to take some of this into our session next week @BarmingYouthFC
@pursuitdrivers Wow. Well done for getting yourself back to fully fit to work. Both physically and mentally. Good luck tomorrow.
Thank goodness for all the safety features now built into cars. Some great automotive engineering helped keep you alive and medical engineering helped your recovery.
#onthisday 1888 Bertha Benz, supposedly without the knowledge of her husband, Karl, took his Patent-Motorwagen (the first production car) on a 66 mile trip, fixing mechanical problems and inventing break lining along the way 👩🔧
#womeninSTEM
Anne Crawford Acheson sculptor. In #WWI she designed anatomically correct papier maché (later plaster of paris) splint = improved healing in servicemen's broken limbs. Process still in use today. #WWII she retrained as precision engineer b. #OTD 5 Aug 1882 https://t.co/KS22cme5dD
Dora Metcalf #comptometer operator in #WWI munitions factory saw potential in mechanical descendants of abacus. Her system used in 1926 #Irish census. Asked to build bombe machines for codebreakers @bletchleypark 1957 intro'd 1st #Irish electronic computer https://t.co/xgyGF6Rnoo
Winifred Drinkwater 1st woman in world to hold a commercial #pilot's licence. Flew photographers over Loch Ness as they searched for Nessie, did air ambulance work on the Western Isles & flew an air search for a boat of kidnappers b. #OTD 11 April 1913 https://t.co/K6ZqtZuk19
@mivy1409 Sad to say but some men still don’t believe they need to participate - my soon to be ex is one of these. Working full time, homeschooling, housework and cooking - not fun.