The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-29
Women
Electricians
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men do not study electricity said
the professor of electrical enSi-
neering at a famous university TO
my thinking it is a profession far more
suited to woman than law or medicine,
surgery or other Callings, which they
flock TO, and I have never talked with
an instructor who did not entertain
the same opinion. Electricity is clean,
requires no strength in manlpulaLOn'
and calls for no greater order OF ability
TO understand its laws than is neces-
sary to master other learned pTOteS-
siOnS. It is a fascinating study; one
likely TO increase in interest and sup
ply an ever-bTOadening incentive Tor
work. Tt offers moreover abundant
chance for substantial returns and
those who have applied themselves to
IL have made excellent records The
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
/ has turned out five or six women grad
yates in electricity. Nearly all the
state universities have at times had
women students in the electrical en-
| cheering class rooms. but they nave
! been the exception and not the rule
Women study physics and chemistry,
l they go all around the subject in its
/ underlying relations, but they give cleo
tricity pure and simple the cold Shout
! der. when it is in reality well suited
| to their capacity physical and men
/ tai"
W omen W no nave " Uls
| America can boast one woman who IS
a full-hedged electrical engineer with
/ six years active work to ner credit
/ Miss Bertha Lamme is on the stan or
/ engineers IOr d big manufacturing COM
/ pany III PittsOurS. she designs ma
I chInery, makes calculations and does
! exactly the work of a man electrical
/ engineer. She is Is years old; is a ma
tive of Ohio, of Dutch ancestry, and IS
d graduate of the OHIO university.
/ one OF the five examiners in the
! electrical department Al the patent
| office in " ashngtOn is a woman She
/ was among the first women in the coun-
! try to study electricity, ana mas heid
her present position many years. her
duties include the keeping track OF all
/ inventions and applications for lnNen-
/ lions, touching electricity in any form
/ And she must have practical as Wen
/ as scientific knowledge OF the avail
/ ability OF the articles submitted
/ There are possibly fifty women in the
4 country who have taken either a, LIti
/ or partial course in electricity, elJher
! from private instructors or at the CO.
! educational institutes. A few of these
! are owners and managers OF electric
/ lighting and electric car plants IN Nari-
J Gus places. One hears of them through
/ the manufacturers Of electrical goods.
/ At Bay City, Mich, at Saginaw, at
| EHenville, N Y, are electrical plants
operated by women A Pennsylvania
woman is assistant purchasing agent
! for a we'll known firm. She is credited
| with such familiarity with electric aP-
| planes and fittings that she knows
at a glance when the goods offered are
| being held al d higher figure than they
! are worth or whether they are cheap
at any price
Several women use their insight into
! electrical science to write what may be
| termed popular articles On the sub
! ject for papers and periodicals. Others
| give lectures on electricity in the
smaller towns and have classes at pr1-
Vate schools. The foremost woman IN
electric science anywhere in the world
is Mrs Bertha AzrtOn of London. she
has made valuable Investigations OF
the phenomena OF the electric arc, and
is a frequent contributor to SclentlHC
journals. Lately she read an impOT-
tant paper before the English ln5tI-
/ tute of Electrical Engineers, the hrst
uaper ever read before that body by a
woman. There are other English Wo-
men who are working practically as
electricians, but Mrs. AzrtOn is wholly
/ a scientist and is recognized IN Great
Britain. Europe and here in America
! where electrical genius has made such
marked progress, as having been OF
| much assistance to the science.
| In the factories at Chicago, Pitts
/ burg. Schenectady, Harrison and other
| places there are hundreds Of girls and
/ electrical goods. They make all the
/ fiaments for the lamps. They wind
( the armatures for the dynemos. They
I wind and cover with spun silk or paper
I miles of wire. large and small used N
[ the induction coils, in the great under
/ ground cables, and on the magnets fol
/ telephone receivers and switchboardS
/ These women tiD all the cords, solder
all the important little mediums and
do all the deft and delicate work nee
Q in, crrrF ma
six forewomen will supervise and IN
struct the others in a single factory
The first class workers have the chance
of promotion and Of steady work al
good pay, as long as they wish It. The
/ manufacturers are anxious Tor intel
ligent girls to train.
Miss Margaret Cleaves.
A woman who is regarded at cleo
. tricaI headquarters as a marvel in all
round knowledge Of electricity Is MISS
Margaret CleaveS Of Iowa, now OF New
, York. She is as familiar with influence
, machines, coils, aIternatOrs, batteries
meters and current controllers as the
average woman is familiar with style;
{ and modes of dress. In the application
of electricity as 9 remedial agent she
: holds a place in public estimation sim
| liar to the one Miss Lamme holds as
: an electrical engineer For, according
, to competent authority, physicians
when they use electricity scientifically
are also electrical engineers, only theil
| workshop holds problems of health, life
and death.
For eight months in the year DR.
Cleaves is instructor and has turned
out more than fifty women graduates
= besides many men graduates in tn
D / electro-medical branch of treatment
. Gray haired physicians come to he
5 clinic for knowledge OF the modern
. / agent. She is a graduate of the low;
. [ State university and had held VariOu
2 important Offices in state medical ant
s charitable institutions, both in lows
{ I and Pennsylvania, before she adOptet
- electricity as an aid to medicine. Mis-
g Cleaves has invented various eleCtriCa
= apparatus. There are many physician
] in the great cities having women as
' ! sistants whom they have instructe
S in the administering of electric treat
. I ment and who are quite proficient
2 These women are familiar with tn
2 electric-aTc bath as a substitute 70
= sunshine to an ailing body. They I'm
- derstand hydTO-electric applications
+ galvanic currents and something abou