Edith Clarke (1883-1959), a gifted mathematician, was raised in the John R. Clarke home “Arlington”. She attended numerous colleges including
Vassar (1908) and MIT (1919) and had a variety of jobs with the longest at
General Electric 1919-1945. Her abilities were finally recognized and she was
advanced to an engineer – a job previously closed to women. She invented the
Clarke calculator, patented in 1921. After retiring, she taught for ten years
at the University of Texas in Austin, then returned to Maryland.
