The Tilly Shilling Oriface. Xpost from GD.

[longship]

Happy birthday, Tilly Shilling!

Beatrice "Tilly" Shilling was an aeronautical engineer who solved one of the more insidious flaws in British fighter plane design during the critical Battle of Britain. Her solution was simple, yet elegant. It saved lives.

It has been called Miss Shilling's Oriface and it's one of those regretably unsung advances which somehow never come to light except on international women's celebrations.

By the way, Tilly was also a motorcycle racer.

And word has it that she refused to marry a suitor until he beat her in a motorcycle race. That was her criteria, not his. One would surmise that the outcome was in question until it was finished.

There's a even a pub in Farnborough named after her.
The Tilly Shilling

So how cool is that?

I raise a glass to Beatrice "Tilly" Shilling.


And don't get me started about another WWII heroine engineer, Hedy Lamarr and her paper on spread spectrum. Yup, this Hedy Lamarr:


Please, not Hedley:


Hope you like.

[longship]

1. Self-kick. Apparently nobody else wants to.

Sheesh!

[mercuryblues]

2. I like it a lot

thanks for posting

[Cha]

3. Thank you, longship~

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No shame in self kicking.. you should see some of mine in GD.

[longship]

6. Promoting an important issue like Feminism is all about the narrative.

That's where the conservatives possibly have an advantage, they are telling a story, albeit a false one.

But I learned the narrative at my mother's knee, and I was born in the 1940's. so I have always been a feminist, in spite of my male gender.

And stories about real people are compelling, even transforming. That's why I will sometimes post such things here.

On a day celebrating women, I cannot think of a better way than to relate the stories of women whose history have somehow passed through the cracks of popular culture.

I am disappointed that others here do not see the advantage of such a tactic.

Women have been part of history since the beginning of history. There are many stories of them, from centuries before Hypatia to the modern day.

Feminism is all about those narratives, which I learned at my mothers knee, which is why I have been a life long feminist, although I am male.

Celebrate women. They are pretty fucking awesome. (As would be expected by anybody who has a brain.)

Thanks.

[Cha]

7. Thank you for being such a

rare breed.

[longship]

8. One would sincerely hope that that was not true.

Regrettably, you may be correct.

What else can one say? What a fucking waste!

It's shameless.

[UtahLib]

4. Thank you

for honoring two brilliant women.

[Mnemosyne]

5. Very cool, longship. Thanks! nt