Josephine Webb, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Josephine Webb

American electrical engineer

Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1918

Place of Birth: Niagara Falls, New York, United States

Profession: inventor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Josephine Webb

  • Josephine Webb (born June 21, 1918) is an American electrical engineer who obtained two patents for oil circuit breaker contact design, known colloquially as "switchgear".
  • She designed an eighteen-inch, full newspaper size fax machine with superior resolution.
  • She co-founded Webb Consulting Company with her husband, also an electrical engineer.
  • She is one of the first female electrical engineers, and considered a pioneer by the Society of Women Engineers.
  • At Purdue University, she was one out of a total of five women engineers.
  • She turned 100 in June 2018.

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