Railroad Engineer Olive Dennis

by Kaye Baillie

Book Overview

When Olive Dennis was young, girls were expected to be sewing, cooking, and cleaning. But Olive was busy imagining, designing, and building everything from a wooden dollhouse to a model streetcar with working parts. When she grew up, Olive continued to defy expectations, earning a civil engineering degree and becoming the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's first female engineer. Her genius for inventing improvements based on her keen observations of passengers'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943147981
• ISBN13: 9781943147984
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Innovation Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.5" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3