Comments on: Request

By: Matt Gates

Matt Gates — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:33:44 +0000

Hey- tried to post this yesterday but doesn’t seem to work!

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

(women had involment in electrical communications)

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

(More of a mathematition but the first female member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers)

Not strictly what you were after but still…

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:52:51 +0000

On teh internetz, maybe not

By: Jacob Ward

Jacob Ward — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:19:42 +0000

I was attempting to be humorous
I’ve given up on that now…I clearly don’t have the ability

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:16:51 +0000

It’s not the title of the course. It’s not a course. They are 5 and 6 yrs old, it’s pretty much whatever the teacher wants to call it at this stage. But as my Ma and the teacher she works with don’t know of any women involved in the invention of electricity, the teacher is stuck with the Fathers of Electricity. Which, if women had nothing to do with its invention, is fair enough. But I find it hard to believe that quite so many men were involved and no women had any input…

By: Jacob Ward

Jacob Ward — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:01:55 +0000

I think if the title of the course is ‘The Fathers of Electricity’ then exclusion of women is mandatory…whether that should be the title of the course is another matter altogether

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:08:01 +0000

I just did a brief search for you to see if I could find anything

I came across Hertha Ayrton and:

‘She was the fifth recipient of this prize, award annually since 1902 in recognition of an original discovery in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications, and as of 2005, the only woman so honored.’

The last part of that being perhaps the most staggering - the only woman!

Actually, the search I did annoyed me too - Google’s spelling corrections are normally pretty good, but it seems they are perhaps taking it a bit to far?

Hope that info helps!

I haven’t seen you in aaaages by the way - how are you? I’m on the mend now, but slowly!

See you soon =D

Dan xx