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): Antonia Mesina • Brian Simmons • Clara Immerwahr • Dean Saunders • Dejan Ognjanović • Isabel Pires • J. Clyde Mitchell • John Edrich • Lalo Schifrin • Margaret Heckler • Mariette Hartley • Pierre Paul Royer-Collard • Pope Leo IX • Reinhold Niebuhr • Shelley Craft • Shirin Ebadi • Togo D. West Jr. • Viktor Tsoi • Wolfgang Haken • Yingluck Shinawatra

Born in the same month (June 1918): Barry Morse • C. J. Eliezer • Eddie Lopat • Franco Modigliani • George Edward Hughes • George Lynch (racing driver) • Heini Lohrer • Helmut Lent • Jerome Karle • John D. Roberts • John Hospers • Kenneth Connor • Leo Rosner • Lili St. Cyr • Mildred Ladner Thompson • Patachou • Patrick Cargill • Percy Rodriguez • Raleigh Rhodes • Ruth Aarons • Yeoh Ghim Seng • Yong Nyuk Lin