About: Anne Chamney

Anne Rosemary Chamney CEng MIMechE (16 April 1931 – 9 December 2008) was a British mechanical engineer specialising in medical equipment. She is best known for her invention of a novel oxygen tent which was much cheaper than existing tents, it was also lighter and therefore easier to transport. Chamney studied at the Royal Aeronautical Society and became an apprentice at the De Havilland Aircraft Company in Hatfield in 1953. Later she became a senior technician at University College Hospital Medical School in London where she evaluated hospital equipment. Chamney was awarded the first James Clayton Prize in Medical Engineering from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.