Webb, Josephine, 1918-

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Josephine Webb (b. June 21, 1918, Niagara Falls, NY) 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.
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referencedIn Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006 Harvard Art Museums. Archives
referencedIn Jessica Barry papers, 1914-1994 GB 206 Leeds University Library
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correspondedWith Coolidge, John, 1913-1995 person
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Niagara Falls NY US
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Electrical engineers
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Birth 1918-06-21

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