Beatriz Ghirelli
Beatriz Ghirelli de Ciaburri (30 April 1915 - 11 September 1992) was an Argentinian engineer and a pioneer of standardisation practices. Early life and education Beatriz Ghirelli was born in Buenos Aires on 30 April 1915. She graduated as a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer in 1938, the first woman to graduate in the subject from National University of La Plata, and the second woman in Argentina to earn the qualification. Career She worked at the Instituto Argentino de Normalización y Certificación (IRAM), and was appointed Director in 1953. There she dedicated herself to standardisation, setting up the process for applications for the IRAM seal of approval. As Technical Director of IRAM, on 6 April 1957 she gave a speech on the standardisation of materials for LS-10 Radio Libertad, stating that standardisation was the way to improve productivity, as it offered "a true economic benefit and a better standard of living." Ghirelli's task was to raise awareness of and convinc ...
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Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South America's southeastern coast. "Buenos Aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the former was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre", named after the Madonna of Bonaria in Sardinia, Italy. Buenos Aires is classified as an alpha global city, according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2020 ranking. The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Province's capital; rather, it is an autonomous district. In 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include t ...
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