She The People

Railway companies made up yet another industry that excluded women from their ranks, but when Olive Wetzel Dennis became a civil engineer she wouldn't take no for an answer. The first female engineer for a major rail company, her decades long career resulted in numerous improvements that impacted the entire travel industry. Learn more in this week's She the People! Hosts: Heather Linder & Billy Puckett Producer & Music Composition: Tim Corpus Sources: https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/olive-dennis-7092.php http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/02/cornell-rewind-phenomenal-first-women-engineering https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/olive-dennis-train-comfort-engineer http://www.researchjournal.yourislandroutes.com/2010/03/the-lady-engineer-olive-d-wetzel-dennis/ https://transportationhistory.org/2017/03/10/women-in-transportation-history-olive-dennis-us-railroad-civil-engineer/