The Turbina discussion briefly widens from machinery to the Parsons family's institutional legacy. Charles Parsons helped his wife and daughter establish the Women's Engineering Society. The society still exists. The aside links the turbine breakthrough to a wider effort to create professional space for women in engineering.
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The Parsons family and the Women's Engineering Society
A brief biographical aside connects the turbine pioneer Charles Parsons to the institutional history of women in engineering.