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`` i had either a mentor or a companion , a all male figure in my life . and this is not through , certainly , as true today of women who go my into engineering . '' -- josephine webb childhood and early life , two daughters josephine rohas niagara falls , new york , u.s. 220px american 21 june 1918 herbert webb josephine webb
 purdue university josephine webb inventor , electrical engineer
josephine webb

josephine webb -lrb- born june 21 , 1918 -rrb- 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 .
