- At age 18, she turned down a place at the Royal College of Music, instead working as a music balancer at the BBC. She became a studio manager, and campaigned, along with Desmond Briscoe, to establish a studio for the production of electronic sound effects and music. The initial studio had only cast-off equipment from the Royal Albert Hall.
- In the 1960s, she invented the Oramics machine, an early sequencer.
- She was a pioneer in electronic music. In 1949, she wrote Still Point, believed to be the world's first composition which manipulates electronic sounds in real time. She set up the famous BBC Radiophonic Workshop, where her colleague Delia Derbyshire created the Dr Who theme.
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