WEEKLY NOW: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN IN ENGINEERING, THROUGH AN ASSOCIATION’S EYES

The Society of Women Engineers honors pioneering women in the field with a Women’s History Month timeline.

Did you know that Mary Kies was the first woman to receive a patent in the United States, in 1809? Or that the completion of construction of the Brooklyn Bridge was overseen by a woman, Emily Roebling, who didn’t get credit for it until a century later?

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