Lydia Weld
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Lydia "Rose" Gould Weld was one of the first women to graduate with an engineering degree from any college in the United States and the first in Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Lydia Weld
Newport News Shipbuilding
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Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United States Na
Lydia Weld
…in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. Upon graduating in 1903, Weld got a job as a draughtsman in the engineering division of Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. Weld's role was to produce all the plans for machinery to be installed on naval ships. She became a member of the American Society of Mechanical…
Aerial view of the Newport News shipyard in 1994. Visible in the drydocks are USS Long Beach and USNS Gilliland
An 1899 advertisement for the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Cranes of Newport News Shipbuilding seen from the James River Bridge, 2020
The shipyard's railroad system