Background

• women were active in many areas of 19th-century British society, e.g. Jane Harrison was the first female 1
• by the end of the century there were 140 female dentists and 212 2, as well as many musicians and actors

Sarah Guppy  

• was born in Birmingham and moved to Bristol with her husband  
• designed bridges that could survive 3
• built 4 of the Clifton Suspension Bridge  
• was a significant 5 in the Clifton Suspension Bridge together with her husband  
• designed a ‘barnacle buster’ that allowed 6 to go faster  
• helped stop 7 near railway lines  
• built an amusing machine for making different parts of  8 
at the same time  
• designed an early type of 9 equipment  

Conclusions  

• other women worked as engineers, e.g. Ada Lovelace and Hertha Marks Ayrton  
• it was not until 1906 that a woman 10 in engineering