The Hidden Figures: Unsung Women Who Calculated Ballistics and Pioneered Early Computing Technology
Title: The Forgotten Human Computers: How Women Calculated Ballistics, Debugged Early Hardware, and Were Erased from HistoryIntroduction When you picture a computer from the 1940s and 1950s, you probably imagine room-sized machines humming with vacuum tubes and punch cards. But for many years the word “computer” more often described people — skilled mathematicians and technicians who ran calculations by hand. These human computers, many of them women, did the painstaking work of calculating ballistics, plotting…