Caroline Haslett

Dame Caroline Harriet Haslett (1895 to 1957) was a British electrical engineer born in Worth, West Sussex, who worked to bring electricity into wider domestic and professional use. She became the first secretary of the Women's Engineering Society and founded and edited its journal, The Woman Engineer, and in November 1924 she helped establish the Electrical Association for Women, serving as its first director until she retired in 1956. The association promoted projects such as the All Electric House in Bristol in 1935 to demonstrate electricity's household uses. In 1947 Haslett became the first woman member of the British Electricity Authority, the body that ran Britain's newly nationalized electricity supply industry, and she contributed to postwar electrical safety standards including the BS 1363 plug and socket design still used in the United Kingdom. She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1931 and a Dame Commander in 1947. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/