Post B5PwGxbpnecVCqvLjE by svavar@masto.svavar.com
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 (DIR) Post #B5Pg2x6jGnO6KUfnqC by gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
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       Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern ScienceFrom AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early 1900s, computing joined teaching and nursing as one of the few careers open to college-educated women, and it opened doors that few other professions couldby Diana Turnbowhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2026/04/06/before-computers-were-machines-they-were-womenhere-are-six-places-where-human-computers-built-modern-science/#womeninstem #computerscience
       
 (DIR) Post #B5PvlaEWf3I3jK3lrc by nakedgerry@mastodon.social
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       @gutenberg_org Yet again we have men achieving on the backs of women who did all the fundamental tasks but rarely received the recognition.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5PwBnzA9Z8ruXNSfA by ottaross@mastodon.social
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       @gutenberg_org lol - wonder who the photographer was, they all seem to be scowling at them. They are not impressed.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5PwGxbpnecVCqvLjE by svavar@masto.svavar.com
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       @gutenberg_org Confirming my long-held belief that women are the brains in this whole operation and discrimination against them makes us all poorer.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5QTPcZefsBv3odrrE by Stone1glo@newsie.social
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       @gutenberg_org How did the Babbage computer work?  Was that code I guess?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5QTPcoBnpojmtRTVo by gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
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       @Stone1glo take a look here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75107