Biography:Consuelo Milner
Consuelo "Connie" Stokes Milner (May 30, 1927 – September 4, 2020) [1] was an American engineer, cryptographer, and educator.[2]
Early life
Milner originally worked in dress design prior to going into engineering.[3] She was a member of Phi Delta Kappa, education honor society.[4]
Scientific career
Milner worked as an electrical engineer at the Brooklyn Navy Yard at the GS-12 level.[5] She received this promotion after 10 years of service.[6] Milner was the first woman to hold that high of a position ever.[5] Her work was considered to be classified.[5] Milner's work also included Cryptography for the Naval Applied Science Lab.[2]
Patent
Milner held a US patent to Thermally stabilized crystal units.[7] This was a method for producing electricity.[8]
Later career
Milner later became a mathematics teacher.[9]
References
- ↑ "Visit Consuelo "Connie" Stokes Milner's Memorial Website". https://everloved.com/life-of/consuelo-milner/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Cyberculture & Girls". The New Yorker. June 27, 1964. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1964/07/04/cyberculture-girls.
- ↑ "Ebony". Johnson Publishing Company. April 1963. https://books.google.com/books?id=RRWGlRpAaFsC&dq=Consuelo+Milner+navy&pg=PA6.
- ↑ National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa October 2020 [|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Company, Johnson Publishing (April 9, 1963). "Ebony". Johnson Publishing Company. https://books.google.com/books?id=RRWGlRpAaFsC&dq=consuelo+milner+navy&pg=PA6.
- ↑ "Untold Stories: Setting the Record Straight on Tech's Racial History | IEEE Computer Society". https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/research/race-and-computing-the-problem-of-sources-the-potential-of-prosopography-and-the-lesson-of-ebony-magazine.
- ↑ "Thermally stabilized crystal units". https://www.freepatentsonline.com/3201621.html.
- ↑ Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office. The Office. 1965. https://books.google.com/books?id=zT7_zSvw5UMC&dq=consuelo+milner&pg=RA1-PA1172.
- ↑ Fosburgh, Lacey (September 3, 1970). "Computer Show Fascinating to and by the Numbers". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/03/archives/computer-show-fascinating-to-and-by-the-numbers.html.
