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Engineer & inventor Beatrice Hicks: pioneering figure esp. for women in #engineering & for sensing technology used in aerospace. Her work directly advanced aviation & NASA's Apollo Moon missions.🧵 Co-founder & first president of the Society of Women Engineers. She died #OTD in 1979. #WomenInSTEM

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Hicks Invented & patented a gas density switch (sensor) that measured the actual amount of gas rather than just pressure. It was used in: + Saturn V rockets + Apollo Moon landing missions + Boeing 707 aircraft + Nuclear weapons monitoring Inducted, Nat'l Inventors Hall of Fame, 2017. #WomenInSTEM

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