biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1883–1959)
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| biography:
| Electrical engineer, born in Howard Co, Maryland, USA. Using her inheritance to attend Vassar, she went on to study engineering at the University of Wisconsin, worked for American Telephone and Telegraph (1912–18), and became the first woman to receive an MS in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1919). She then worked at General Electric (1922–45), focusing on large electrical power systems, and developed a calculating device that predicted the electrical behaviour of these systems. She postponed her retirement to a farm in Maryland by teaching at the University of Texas at Austin (1947–56). |
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