Nina Baker
Independent engineering historian: women in engineering, motoring, aviation, construction. Writing book on women's motoring clubs worldwide.
Ex-MN. Ex-Deacon Hammermen of Glasgow. OBE.
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https://womenengineerssite.wordpress.com
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- I am so deeply old/boring that I dont have the sort of phone that does apps. The phone system for the local black cabs is not as good as it used to be because of course they had to update/improve it or something not long ago.
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- As in get rid of them. I asked the women's library here if they could take them but there was some copyright issue.
- Back in the olden days, circa 2000, when I started researching history of women in engineering, everything was photocopies of journal articles. PDF might have existed since 1993 but no one was using it much. I keep wondering whether I should dump my folders of those articles.
- Looks like the empty building vandals finally got to Corstorphine Hospital.
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- 👍😀 I actually tried to find if such establishments even still exist and drew a blank, other than that some nursing homes offer a rather depressing version. I had in mind this sort of place.
- The "curiosity cabinet" of Danish antiquary Ole Worm, born #onthisday in 1588. More curiosity and cabinets in our essay "Lost Libraries" by Claire Preston, about the Renaissance preoccupation with lost intellectual treasures, real and invented: publicdomainreview.org/essay/l... #otd
- Looks a lot like the sort of stuff we and our kids pick up on hols.
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- You say that, but when I had been in hospital for 5+weeks in 2023 I could actually really have done with a convalescent hospital to get me back on my feet. Preferably by the sea, for that invigorating ozone that was said to be so good for one but only to be had at the seaside.
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- The cars are rather more old fashioned in style than the building, IMO.
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- Book review: Mistress of Science,The Story of the Remarkable Janet Taylor, Pioneer of Sea Navigation. John S. Croucher and Rosalind F. Croucher. Women’s History Magazine, Spring 2017, p38. womenshistorynetwork.org/wp-content/u...
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- I am surprised by the strong tone of the OP. My only gripe with Wikipedia has been persuading anonymous vetting people that the entry I want to make is notable enough. Wikiwomeninred do a terrific job as do many others trying to even the balance on gender and ethnicity.
- I never get tired of this.
- Reminds me of when our youngest got his ear-glue grommet operation and could suddenly hear us (and not be in constant pain).
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- Something similar happened with 'Clear air turbulence' and its effects on aircraft. It seems the japanese knew of it before WW2 but the info was blocked by the war from reaching other nations. The Comet crashes of the 1950s brought it back to concern and Anne Burns uncovered its root causes.
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- Actually, the Lady with the Hammer.
- Macaroni and cheese, shrimp, masculinity, things of this nature
- 'Camp' style?
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- Something similar happened in a political group I was involved with circa 20yrs ago.
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- Haha! youtu.be/eSrXqOI9988?...
- @gavia.bsky.social what we were discussing
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- Lucky you. We havent had any rain in a month and not much before that either.
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- Certainly my will to live evaporates fast if a speaker starts to use such things to explain anything. Word clouds are only marginally better.
- I agree. Except that I, born in London 🏴, moved to live in Glasgow 🏴, over 35 years ago and still cannot pass for any sort of Scot, let alone a native Glaswegian.
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- Nope. Sadly not, unless I use such incomprehensible words as 'Outwith' or 'Stramash'!
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- To say nothing of full-on Glaswegian.
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- You probably need to join the Mustard Club.
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- I was well past middle aged before I realised that all those webby diagram things that some say are the only way to see things clearly did not have to mean anything to me. I am strictly a linear, lists and underlinings person.
- Do I take they will also not discuss 'facti', whatever they are?
- But when oh when are we going to get ANY rain in Scotland?
- Not the main point today, I know, but could I just emphasize that the UK is not an island. Unless you have forgotten Northern Ireland. Which you probably have.
- Actually how many islands is the UK?
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- I would love to know what the murals depict but am not having much luck finding via google.
- Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.
- The Scottish Government used to speak positively about inwards migration but I am not sure if they still do?
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- That is one solid looking kitchen door!
- Lovely! And great to have the sun too.
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- I need to check through the gazillions of photos I took in the archives several years ago to remind myself about it all.
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- Poached egg plant.
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- Nuts are protein. Chocolate too.
- Just heard about this on FB, so now thinking about a day trip to Scarborough specially to go this place: www.facebook.com/p/Diggers-Ca...
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- The loveliest thing is that the factory is still there. They produced a wonderful company history and there is a small museum of lamp history in the factory.
- Her daughter unfortunately didnt understand what her mother was doing in Germany. She was one of a tiny number of women participating in Operation Surgeon teams. They were neither spying, nor assessing war damage, so much as collecting 🇩🇪 people, data, machines & knowledge as part of war reparations.
- Annual Stirling Walking of the Marches on Saturday 31st May, 2025. Based on a centuries old tradition of inspecting the burgh boundaries, join this great community event, walk through the city and take in some of our magnificent historic landmarks.
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- Apart from more made from plastic and less from tinplate, the offerings havent changed since my own seaside childhood visits 60+ yrs ago.
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- Capt James Cook obliged his crews to eat raw onions to fend off scurvy. He never lost a man to scurvy on his many long voyages.
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- Is this something that every RC boy is invited to think about at 1st day at Sunday School?
- So I know a lot of you like Joe Wicks but it seems he’s telling middle aged women not to do high-impct/high-intensity exercise via his “menopause” workouts ‘cos our frail lady bones can’t take it. That’s literally the opposite of all the research. We *need* impact. Red flag.
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- I think I have 1, so that is good. 4 is definitely no problem although the GP practice nurse may have other thoughts when I see her next week. 2 is going to have to be gardening and fetching groceries. 3 could definitely use some work: I fell backwards off a kerb yday and have nasty graze on elbow.
- Sadly neither Toad nor Frog, nor any of their relatives live in my pond. My seeds too are struggling to put leaves above ground, mainly due to the past 2 months being so dry (🏴).
- @grace-knight.co.uk rat leashes!
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- Accommodation for Vickers workers was a nightmare. Dorothee's cousin was lucky to lodge with a family of shipyard workers, in Vickerstown but a lot of men were hot-bunking (see this depicted in 🇩🇪 shipyard in ep3 of Reilly Ace of Spies) & 1000s more brought in on special trains from outlying towns.
- Just learned there’s a place in Brooklyn called Win Son Bakery that does breakfast sandwiches on scallion pancakes and I’m grunting lustily
- Looks good. I have a glut of spring onions/scallions.
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- And this place was a women's hostel. I think but am not sure that it might have been Dorothee's billet.
- It is a nice wee building. Dorothee Pullinger, as Vickers' Lady Superintendent set it up as a sort of receiving depot for new munitionettes arriving off the train: to sort out accommodation etc for them.
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