The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-11
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 "A thority for the statement that the \ only practical heating engineer in America is a woman. Probably the Edison Electric people share his opinion, for they pay a bank presidents salary to this woman to conduct one department of their business. The woman is only 30 years old. Her name is Nellie Kelnz.
 Nine years ago she was a sewing girl in Brooklyn working on children's dresses. The dollars she earned with her needle went to support her mother and sister.
 There is not much outcome to sewing. dressmsking and such like, so the gl. did not have much hesitancy in giving it up when she had chance for employ ment in the office of the Brooklyn Edison company as a clerk She got $7 or $s or s9 a week-some small amount that sEe thought was glorious.
 She was pretty fair clerk, bright, neat, punctual, and probably could have re- mained in the office for the rest of her life if she had so desired. But chance and her good nature led her into another held.
 There was a demonstration being con- ducted over in one of the large depart ment stores showing the electrical devices the company was introducing. The young woman in charge asked Miss Keinz as favor to assist her in demonstrating the articles. Electrical appliances had no particular interest for Miss Keinz but she went to the department store made fudge In the chafng dish, did little plain and fancy cooking, ironed with the electric sadiron, chatted with the men and women who sought information about the novel; sies, and was in danger of developing fine case of indigestion from the brave attempt she made to consume all the fudge she made in the chafing dish Dem onstrating those devices was simply part of the days work and 1t so continued for two weeks. Then suddenly the gh. began 10 look upon the chafing dish and the iron and the other appurtenances with some wonder. She wanted to discover their in ternal mechanism. and she was not sats- fled until she took the things apart and put them together again That helped some. She had about the same feeling about those devices then that a young man has after taking the works out of watch. mussing them up and putting them Tn order once more
 Nellie Keinz had no more technical knowledge of electricity that day than did the Dowager Empress of China. She didn't know lllowatt from a water hog, or an ampere from an amethyst. She is still rather shy on the technical end. But when it comes to the practical, she is in a class all by herself
 The day that she wanted to see the in side of the appliances in her care was the turning point in her life. She developed a passion for doing things with electrical contraptions.
 She took that cha7ng dish and she baked e custard in it. Any woman who knows anything about cooking knows that this Is as close an approach to genius as a culinary queen can hope for Then she fried crullers in that cha1ng dish, crullers that were a delight and joy to all who became acquainted with them. She never knew until this time what a marvellous cook she was. What she accomplished then is all the more wonderful when it is considered that that original electric chafing dish was a very crude and imper fect affair compared with the one of to- day.
 When the demonstration in the depart n1ent store was finished, Miss Keinz went back to the Brooklyn Edison clerlSship. She did little more office work and then they found use for her working with tho electrical appliances they had for heating.
 She had no mechanical training, but she had a natural knowledge of mechanics. She got a screw driver, a pair of pliers. monkey wrench and a few other things and worked over anything and everything that needed attention.
 Every month there was some improve ment in nearly every article the company