Nora Stanton Barney
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Nora Stanton Barney was an English-born American civil engineer, and suffragist. Barney was among the first women to graduate with an engineering degree in the United States. Given an ultimatum to eit
Barney in 1921
Barney when she was younger
Lee de Forest
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Lee de Forest was an American inventor, electrical engineer, and early pioneer in electronics of fundamental importance. He invented the first practical electronic amplifier, the three-element "Audion
Nora Stanton Barney
…and no woman became a full ASCE member for a decade. In 2015, she was posthumously advanced to ASCE Fellow status. In 1908, she married the inventor Lee de Forest, and helped to manage some of the companies he had founded to promote his invention and the new technology of wireless (radio). The couple spent their…
Lee de Forest c. 1904
De Forest, some time between 1914 and 1922, with two of his Audions, a small 1-watt receiving tube (left), and a later 250-watt transmitting power tube (right), which he called an "oscillion".
American DeForest Wireless Telegraph Company's observation tower, 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition at Saint Louis, Missouri
Ohio Historical Marker: On July 18, 1907, Lee de Forest transmitted the first ship-to-shore messages that were sent by radiotelephone.