Comments on: Farewell, BFP and Blackamazon http://thetokenfeminist.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/farewell-bfp-and-blackamazon/ If you oppose her, it will be your downfall [-Ptah Hotep] Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:15:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Caitlin http://thetokenfeminist.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/farewell-bfp-and-blackamazon/#comment-288 Caitlin Sun, 04 May 2008 18:43:27 +0000 http://thetokenfeminist.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-288 Ta Matt - have emailed my ma the link :) It's not quite what she needs, but interesting nonetheless. I think the only way to truly know would be to go back in time, which alas we cannot. And yeah, your comment posted, just on the wrong blog! Hey ho. Ta Matt - have emailed my ma the link :) It’s not quite what she needs, but interesting nonetheless. I think the only way to truly know would be to go back in time, which alas we cannot. And yeah, your comment posted, just on the wrong blog! Hey ho.

]]> By: Matt Gates http://thetokenfeminist.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/farewell-bfp-and-blackamazon/#comment-287 Matt Gates Sun, 04 May 2008 18:35:34 +0000 http://thetokenfeminist.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-287 Also, a woman called Hertha Marks Ayrton seems to be the first woman I could find who has something to do with electricity (more involved in maths tho) she was 'the first female member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1899' http://www.agnesscott.edu/LRIDDLE/WOMEN/ayrton.htm Also, a woman called Hertha Marks Ayrton seems to be the first woman I could find who has something to do with electricity (more involved in maths tho) she was ‘the first female member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1899′

http://www.agnesscott.edu/LRIDDLE/WOMEN/ayrton.htm

]]> By: Matt Gates http://thetokenfeminist.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/farewell-bfp-and-blackamazon/#comment-286 Matt Gates Sun, 04 May 2008 18:30:05 +0000 http://thetokenfeminist.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-286 Closest I could find thus far is mention of women in electrical communication, see: http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit.php?id=159251&lid=1 This may have some of what your looking for: 'One example of that influence is in the history of communication. Electrical communication is a field that includes technologies ranging from the telegraph and the telephone to satellite communications. Although famous men such as Samuel Morse and Guglielmo Marconi are well known as inventors in this field, women played major, if lesser-known, roles as operators and users of new and developing technologies. That is, women were often central in what is often the key point in the history of a technology—the time when an invention moves from the laboratory into practical use.' Closest I could find thus far is mention of women in electrical communication, see:

http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit.php?id=159251&lid=1

This may have some of what your looking for:

‘One example of that influence is in the history of communication. Electrical communication is a field that includes technologies ranging from the telegraph and the telephone to satellite communications. Although famous men such as Samuel Morse and Guglielmo Marconi are well known as inventors in this field, women played major, if lesser-known, roles as operators and users of new and developing technologies. That is, women were often central in what is often the key point in the history of a technology—the time when an invention moves from the laboratory into practical use.’

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