Bertha lamme biography books

As recently as 1980, only about six percent of engineers in the U.S. were women. That number has improved significantly today, but there is still only one woman for every four men working in the field.

These statistics make the accomplishments of Bertha Lamme all the more remarkable.

Lamme blazed new trails when she accepted a job as an engineer with the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.

In 1896, the New York Herald called her the “only woman electrical engineer in the country,” reporting on her attendance at a national convention.

The Chicago publication Young People’s Weekly described her in 1907 as a “slide rule phenomenon” for her abilities as a mathematician and calculator.

Lamme came to Pittsburgh to work for George Westinghouse several months after her 1893 graduation from Ohio State University.

Her thesis, “An Analysis of Tests of a Westinghouse Railway Generator,” familiarized her with the company, as did her brother, Benjamin Lamme, who had worked fi