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Named after Bertha Lamme—the first woman in the U.S. to earn a mechanical engineering degree and the first female engineer at Westinghouse—bertha is trained on over 75 years of company data, industrial practices, and domain expertise.—John Werner, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
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Etymology
French berthe, from Berthe (Bertha) †783 queen of the Franks
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