Bertha Lamme-Feicht, Westinghouse’s First Female Engineer

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• After 12 years of employment, Bertha’s professional career ended when she married co-worker, Russell Feicht, due to societal expectations as a wife

• she was part of an accomplished team known for its famed alternating current electrical power that helped light the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893

• Westinghouse used the same technology to harness the power of Niagara Falls in 1895 to help supply electricity to nearby Buffalo, N.Y

• Though no longer employed, it is said she still greatly contributed to both her husband’s and brother’s work from home

• Even her fellow classmates at Ohio State were smitten by her, describing her in the school’s yearbook as “a compendium of universal knowledge.”