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Harvard's Women "Computers" Holding Hands

By Courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
A group of 80 women on the staff of the Harvard College Observatory were known as the "Harvard Computers." The word computer originally referred to people who were so good at math they “computed” for a living.
A group of 80 women on the staff of the Harvard College Observatory were known as the "Harvard Computers." The word computer originally referred to people who were so good at math they “computed” for a living.

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