Edith Clarke
Updated: 12/30/2019 by Computer Hope
Name: Edith Clarke
Born: February 10, 1883
Death: October 29, 1959 (Age: 76)
Computer-related contributions
- Electrical engineer and a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
- First woman employed as an electrical engineer in the United States, and the country's first female professor of electrical engineering.
- Inventor of the Clarke calculator, a simple graphical device that solved equations involving electric current, voltage, and impedance in power transmission lines. The device could solve line equations involving hyperbolic functions ten times faster than previous methods.