Clarke, Edith (1883–1959)

US electrical engineer. Working at General Electric from 1922–45, she concentrated on large electrical power systems, and developed a calculating device that predicted the electrical behaviour of these systems.

She was born in Howard County, Maryland. Using her inheritance to attend Vassar, she went on to study engineering at the University of Wisconsin and then worked for American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (1912–18). She was the first woman to receive an M.S. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1919). She taught at the University of Texas: Austin 1947–56.