Hagedorn, Beatrice Mead, 1920-
Beatrice Mead Hagedorn papers, 1942-1943.
This collection contains photocopies of clippings from Newsday (1942), the Nassau Leader (1943), the Brooklyn Eagle (1943) a quip from the New Yorker (1942) and photocopies of photographs and a certificate. The clippings document the work of Beatrice Mead Hagedorn. The photographs depict her as a radio operator at Cornell University and working at Bell Laboratories. The certificate was presented to her from Bell Telephone Laboratories and state she has contributed to victory in the Second World War by, "continuing to assist the Bell Telephone System in the maintenance of essential communications, the Laboratories concentrated on research, development, design and engineering for the United States Army/United States Navy, Office of Scientific Research and Development."
B.E.E., Cornell University (1943) in electrical engineering, mathematics and physics; first woman to obtain a radio control operator's license; worked at Bell Telephone Company during World War II as an engineer in the crystal units group.
Hagedorn, Beatrice Mead, 1920-
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Cornell University
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development.
Radio.
World War, 1939-1945
AIP-ICOS
Iowa State University. Parks Library. Archives of Women in Science and Engineering. Ames, Iowa 50011-2140, USA