In Boston, Edith Clarke received her degree from MIT. She was the first woman to do so. She then went to work for General Electric in Schenectady, New York. She traveled extensively, including to Istanbul, throughout Europe, including Italy, Egypt, and the Arctic. She invented voltage regulators for long-distance power lines. After 1945, she left GE to teach at the University of Texas. She died in 1959 in Maryland.
