The Tilly Shilling oriface. Celebrating a day for women.
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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.
Here's her Wiki: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Shilling
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:
On edit: stupid DU3 sometimes mangles URL links. Posted Wiki link after paragraph instead of in line.
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of Tilly Schilling, Hedy Lamar and Women everywhere on International Women's Day~
80-some views and yours is the first to respond. I would expect nothing less from you.
so many views for good posts and NOTHING. Who are these people? 
Plus, Hedy Lamarr, whose technical paper gave rise to fucking cell phones!
What's not to like about that? (As I post this via an iPhone.)
Thank you, Hedy. (But not Hedley.)
