Article ID: CBB478109652

Female Computers, Unsung Heroes of World War II (Winter 2020)

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Wolverton, Mark (Author)


American Heritage of Invention and Technology
Volume: 26
Issue: 1

ISSN: 8756-7296

Publication Date: Winter 2020
Journal Abbreviation: AHIT
Edition Details: Special issue: 50 Women Inventors and Innovators
Physical Details: No pages for on-line version.
Language: English

In a top-secret program, talented, young female mathematicians calculated the artillery and bomb trajectories that American GIs and airmen used to win World War II.

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Authors & Contributors
Abbate, Janet
Aspray, William F.
Grier, David Alan
Hansson, Sven Ove
Irish, Sharon
Jack, Jordynn Marguerite
Journals
American Heritage of Invention and Technology
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Air Power History
Historia Mathematica
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
NEHA-Jaarboek voor economische, bedrijfs- en techniekgeschiedenis
Publishers
Springer
Aurum
Brepols
Crown
Johns Hopkins University Press
MIT Press
Concepts
Computers and computing
Women and technology
Women in science
World War II
Computational methods
Mathematics
People
Turing, Alan Mathison
Babbage, Charles
Davis, Ruth M.
Gödel, Kurt
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Lovelace, Ada, Countess of
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Greece
Institutions
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) (U.S.)
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