Jessica Barry papers 1914-1994

Bedford college

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Bedford College was founded in 1849 by Elizabeth Jesser Reid. It took its name from its first home, No. 47 Bedford Square in London's Bloomsbury, and despite successive moves the name did not change. It was always felt that the institution was more than the name. Elizabeth Reid, daughter of William Sturch, a Unitarian businessman, was widowed at the early age of 32 and left with enough money to patronise various philanthropic causes. As few of her papers have survived it...

Keene family

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Barry Leslie Grayburn

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Barry, Jessica Howard

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Jessica Howard ("Poppy") Barry (ne Robinson) (1897-1994) was educated at Bedford College, University of London, where she read Chemistry, and became the wife of 2nd Lieutenant Leslie Grayburn Barry, who served with the ASC (Army Service Corps). From the guide to the Jessica Barry papers, 1914-1994, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) ...

Dawson Edith Breary

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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, s...