Florence Violet McKenzie was Australia’s first female electrical engineer and promoter of technical education for women.
One way she communicated science and technical concepts to women was through pop culture!
She taught the rhythm of Morse code using music and translation of the code using sections of comic strips.
Isabel briefly touches on this in her new paper on the early history of Australian women in #scicomm: https://jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/JCOM_2506_2026_A04/