[1] After finishing her Cambridge studies, she worked for a brief time at a company in Lewisham that made instruments for telegraphy, electricity and engineering.
[2] Keary was the first woman to co-author (with Baker) a paper read to the Institution of Naval Architects in 1918, entitled ‘The effect of the longitudinal motion of a ship on its statical transverse stability’.
[3] Keary's work led to her election as the first female Associate Fellow of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain in 1917;[1] an NPL colleague also reportedly credited her with the design of floats for a seaplane that won the prestigious Schneider Trophy.
[1] In 2019, the Royal Institution of Naval Architects commemorated Eily Keary's achievements with the introduction of an annual award named after her.
He was a marine engineer and had changed his name by deed poll from Smith to Smith-Keary, the same surname that Eily adopted after her marriage.