Marjorie Bell

Marjorie Bell BSc, GradIEE, CEng, MIISO, MIOSH, HonMWES (26 December 1906 – 10 June 2001) was a British electrical engineer and factory inspector.

Bell had a number of jobs and ran her own clothing factory before becoming the first woman to study electronic engineering at the Northampton Institute.

Upon her return to the United Kingdom she was promoted to district inspector and received the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.

[3] In the course of her studies she spent a term and a holiday break working at the research laboratories of the General Electric Corporation.

[2][3] Also during this time she worked as a demonstrator at the showrooms of the Worthing Town Council electrical department, and afterwards for the Municipal Borough of Ealing.

[2] She worked in Bristol, Walsall and the East Midlands inspecting factories that cured fish, made bricks, canned fruit and manufactured fertilizers.

[1][2] She was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal in 1953 and served as president of the Women's Engineering Society for their 1956–57 session.