Langley Research Center, Human Computer, 1952

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A human computer at work with a microscope collecting data at Langley Research Center. She sits next to a Friden calculating machine. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) hired women to serve as human computers in the mid 1930s, doing the drudge work of reading data from test results, calculating formulas and plotting results. No photographer credited, March 24, 1952.

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