Women served as the first computers for the Flight Research Center. Hired because of their math degrees or teaching background, they took raw data from the aircraft-beginning with film traces-and generated pages and pages of numbers, then graphed them for the engineers to use.
Women served as the first computers for the Flight Research Center. Hired because of their math degrees or teaching background, they took raw data from the aircraft-beginning with film traces-and generated pages and pages of numbers, then graphed them for the engineers to use. Over the next 15 years they were gradually replaced with electronic computers.NASA Photo
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