Josephine Webb

Josephine Webb 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. ^{Josephine Webb, American engineer (d. 2017)}

21 June 1918

Born on the same birth date (21 June 1918): Dee Molenaar • Eddie Lopat • J. Clyde Mitchell • James Joll • Robert A. Boyd • Robert Roosa • Tibor Szele

Born on the same birth day (21 June): Charles Edward Horn • Derrius Guice • Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon • Hermann Scherchen • Kathleen O'Kelly-Kennedy • Lenore Manderson • Mary McCarthy (author) • Paolo Soleri • Sendy Rleal • The Wachowskis • Yang Liwei

Born in the same month (June 1918): C. J. Eliezer • Dee Molenaar • Edwin G. Krebs • Francis W. Nye • Gene La Rocque • George Lynch (racing driver) • Georgia Louise Harris Brown • Heini Lohrer • Helmut Lent • J. B. Fuqua • Jerome Karle • John D. Roberts • John Hospers • Kathryn Tucker Windham • Patachou • Patrick Cargill • Robert A. Boyd • Robert Roosa • Ruth Aarons • Ruth Atkinson • Samuel Z. Arkoff • Yong Nyuk Lin • Zoltán Sztáray