Kansas Girl Genius Operates Television-Radio Station (Jun, 1936)
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1936
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1936
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Yeah, well, she’s pretty smart, for a girl.
Kansas Girl Genius Operates Television-Radio Station
CONQUERING fields in which very few men have ventured eighteen-year-old Eleanor Thomas of Kansas City, Mo., is assistant engineer of Television station W9XBY. Finding the life on a college campus too prosaic Miss Thomas, a mathematical genius for a girl, decided to leave and enter an engineering school.Throughout the course the young woman excelled in her studies and upon her graduation she was appointed to the position she now holds. She is the youngest member of her sex ever to pass the difficult examinations for a first class operator’s license from the Federal Communications Commission.
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