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Jun 21, 1918 Niagara Falls, New York, United States 106 years old
American electrical engineer
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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.
