The First Lady of Engineering: Trailer

The First Lady of Engineering: Trailer

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Layers of Brilliance: The 'House of Magic' -- Episode Two

Katharine Burr Blodgett arrives at The General Electric Company’s legendary research laboratory in Schenectady, New York, known as the “House of Magic.” She was just 20 years old when she entered a world built almost entirely for men. She joins as assistant to the brilliant and e ...  Show more

Layers of Brilliance: The Chemical Genius of Katharine Burr Blodgett - Episode One

In the first of this five-part season we trace Katharine’s early years as she picks up European languages, her early scientific education at a progressive New York school for girls and then Bryn Mawr, a women’s college. She seems destined to end up working at the General Electric ...  Show more

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