| LC control no. | no2017109741 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Clarke, Edith, 1883-1959 |
| Birth date | 1883-02-10 |
| Death date | 1959-10-29 |
| Place of birth | Howard County (Md.) |
| Field of activity | Electrical engineering |
| Affiliation | American Telephone and Telegraph Company General Electric Company University of Texas at Austin |
| Profession or occupation | Electrical engineers College teachers |
| Found in | Circuit analysis of A-C power systems, 1964: title page (Edith Clarke) Wikipedia, August 21, 2017 (Edith Clarke; Edith Clarke (February 10, 1883--October 29, 1959) was the first female electrical engineer and the first female professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin; she specialized in electrical power system analysis and wrote Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems; she was born in Howard County, Maryland to John Ridgely Clarke and Susan Dorsey Owings; she graduated from Vassar College in 1908; after college, Clarke taught mathematics and physics at a private school in San Francisco and at Marshall College; she then spent some time studying civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but left to become a "computer" at AT&T in 1912; while at AT&T, she studied electrical engineering at Columbia University by night; in 1918, Clarke enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the following year she became the first woman to earn an M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT; unable to find work as an engineer, she went to work for General Electric as a supervisor of computers in the Turbine Engineering Department; in her spare time, she invented the Clarke calculator; in 1921, still unable to obtain a position as an engineer, she left GE to teach physics at the Constantinople Women's College in Turkey; the next year, she was re-hired by GE as an electrical engineer in the Central Station Engineering Department; Clarke retired from General Electric in 1945; in 1947, she joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin, making her the first female professor of Electrical Engineering in the country; she taught for ten years and retired in 1957) |
| Associated language | eng |
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