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Bertha Lamme was as an engineer with the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Bertha Lamme was the first female mechanical engineering graduate from the Ohio State University and the first woman to work in the industry at Westinghouse....
Bertha Lamme Feicht
20th-century American engineer
Bertha Lamme Feicht (December 16, 1869 – November 20, 1943) was an American engineer.
In 1893, she became the first woman to receive a degree in engineering from the Ohio State University.[1] She is considered to be the first American woman to graduate in a main discipline of engineering other than civil engineering.[2]
Early life and education
She was born Bertha Lamme on her family's farm in Bethel Township near Springfield, Ohio on December 16, 1869.[3]
After graduating from Olive Branch High School in 1889,[3] she followed in her brother, Benjamin G.
Lamme's footsteps and enrolled at Ohio State that fall.[2]
She graduated in 1893 with a degree in mechanical engineering with a specialty in electricity.[1][2][3] Her thesis was titled "An Analysis of Tests of a Westinghouse Railway Generator."[2] The student newspaper reported