About Josephine Webb
Josephine Webb (June 21, 1918 – May 4, 2017) was 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 was 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. == Early life == Webb was born Josephine Rohas in Niagara Falls, New York on June 21, 1918. She grew up in a one-parent household in Buffalo; her father served in World War I and never returned home. Her brother, Roderick, was two-and-a-half years older. Webb considered him a great influence in her early life, and by causality, her later life. When Roderick became interested in radio, they both became ham radio operators.
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