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History

Her name was almost forgotten, but today Henrietta Vansittart has a firm place in the history of technology: she was one of the first women in Europe to work publicly as an engineer and inventor. Henrietta Vansittart, née Lowe, even achieved a certain fame in her time. Her ship's propeller is considered an important nautical invention of the 19th century.

Henrietta, probably born in Surrey in 1833, was one of the six children of the blacksmith and inventor James Lowe. She grew up in poor circumstances. Her father invested his wife Marie's money in his tinkering with a screw propeller, for which he received a British patent (No. 7599) in 1838. The invention probably had some success. But Lowe apparently found himself forced to fight several legal battles over the infringement of his patent, which eventually brought him to the brink of ruin.

Henrietta Vansittart

By:Victoria Buster

Invention

By 1855, Henrietta Lowe had already married the dragoon lieutenant Frederick Vansittart. The turning point of her life, however, was the accidental death of her father on 12 October 1866 (he was run over by a carriage in London). She decided to continue his work. She worked as an engineer for almost two decades, becoming much more successful and well-known than her father and decisively improving the Lowe-Vansittart propeller

Henriettas propeller invention

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