Determined and highly capable, Violet McKenzie was a dynamo. She was born Florence Violet Granville in 1890. Her mother, Annie, later married George Wallace, a mine clerk, and the family settled in the NSW coastal town of Austinmer. From an early age, Violet’s interest in electronics flourished playing with batteries and light-bulbs. She studied science part-time at the University of Sydney in 1914, but struggling with the fees, switched to a 7-year electrical engineering diploma at Sydney Technical College (today’s TAFE NSW Sydney Institute).
"In 1923, Violet Wallace graduated the first female electrical engineer in Australia, her diploma kept by the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney."
You can’t do that!
However, when Violet applied, the College told her she couldn’t enrol
