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Queen of the Hurricanes - The Fearless Elsie MacGill - A Feminist History Society Book, Book 3 (Unabridged) by Crystal Sissons

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Queen of the Hurricanes - The Fearless Elsie MacGill - A Feminist History Society Book, Book 3 (Unabridged)

Author
Crystal Sissons
Narrator
Dawn Harvey
Publisher
Second Story Press
Publish Date
20 July 2020
Run Time
12 hours 4 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Biography: general, Gender studies: women and girls, Feminism and feminist theory
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Elsie MacGill achieved many firsts in science and engineering at a time when women were considered to be inferior in the sciences. In 1923, at the age of nineteen, she became the first woman to attend engineering classes at the University of Toronto. She was the first woman in North America to hold a degree in aeronautical engineering and the first woman aircraft designer in the world. As chief engineer for the Canadian Car and Foundry Company she oversaw the production of the Hawker Hurricane, and designed a series of modifications to equip the plain for cold weather flying. Her Maple Leaf trainer may still be the only plane ever to be completely designed by a woman. Elsie, a popular heroine of her time who inspired the comic book “Queen of the Hurricanes” in the 1940s, later became an influential feminist activist.

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Author
Crystal Sissons
Narrator
Dawn Harvey
Duration
12 hours 4 minutes
Release Date
20 July 2020
ISBN
9781772601596
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Second Story Press
Genre
Biography: general, Gender studies: women and girls, Feminism and feminist theory

Synopsis

Elsie MacGill achieved many firsts in science and engineering at a time when women were considered to be inferior in the sciences. In 1923, at the age of nineteen, she became the first woman to attend engineering classes at the University of Toronto. She was the first woman in North America to hold a degree in aeronautical engineering and the first woman aircraft designer in the world. As chief engineer for the Canadian Car and Foundry Company she oversaw the production of the Hawker Hurricane, and designed a series of modifications to equip the plain for cold weather flying. Her Maple Leaf trainer may still be the only plane ever to be completely designed by a woman. Elsie, a popular heroine of her time who inspired the comic book “Queen of the Hurricanes” in the 1940s, later became an influential feminist activist.

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