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 "computers" in the mid 1930s, doing the drudge work of reading data from test results (from film as shown here), calculating formulas and plotting results. Image # : L-74768 Date: March 24, 1952

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Keywords: computer, computers, computing, langley, naca