Eunice Newton Foote is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Eunice Newton Foote as American scientist, inventor and women's rights activist (1819–1888).
Eunice Newton Foote was born at Goshen in 1819. Her recorded nationality is the United States. She was educated at Emma Willard School and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
The nineteenth century professionalised nearly everything: salaried posts, formal training, and audiences large enough to sustain a career.
Eunice Newton Foote is described as physicist, climatologist and inventor.
Among her principal works are Circumstances affecting the Heat of the Sun's Rays and On a New Source of Electrical Excitation. The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
Her recorded fields of work are physics, climatology and women's rights activism.
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 1888, at 69. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Notable work: Circumstances affecting the Heat of the Sun's Rays
- Notable work: On a New Source of Electrical Excitation
- Educated at Emma Willard School and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Worked as physicist, climatologist and inventor
