Janina Lewandowska made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Janina Lewandowska as Polish officer and aviator (1908-1940).
Janina Lewandowska was born at Kharkiv in 1908. Her recorded nationality is Second Polish Republic.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
Janina Lewandowska is described as military officer and aircraft pilot.
The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
Working from Second Polish Republic shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 1940, at 32. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Worked as military officer and aircraft pilot
