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Offline HuronKingTopic starter

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Edith Clarke
« on: March 11, 2022, 07:37:41 pm »
It's women's history month so in the interest of recognizing that AND celebrating a GIANT in the history of electrical engineering, let's put a spotlight on Edith Clarke:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Clarke

She invented the first graphing calculator, first woman to work professionally as an EE in the US, and literally wrote the book on AC Power Analysis:
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278653/page/n19/mode/2up

It's kind of startling how little the textbooks have changed from what is mostly a compilation of her lecture notes to GE.
 

Offline jpanhalt

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Re: Edith Clarke
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2022, 07:53:27 pm »
Add to the list Hedy Lamarr.

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/hedy-lamarr

A bioptic on Howard Hughes had a nice scene with her too.
 
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Offline T3sl4co1l

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Re: Edith Clarke
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2022, 08:08:45 pm »
Great pick!

One that comes to mind offhand is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Love_Cohen
It seems greatness runs in the family; on top of engineering for NASA, she also bore famous musician Jack Black. 8)

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