Baby and we were just having a really difficult time coming up with names, finally my husband suggested Eleanor Francis, i googled the name and what popped up was a woman named Eleanor Francis and there was a beautiful picture of her black and white taken at nasa in the 1960s accepting an award. I was stun by the picture because i had no idea that women worked in nasa at that time much less a scientist. So i really wanted to learn more about i found out that actually Eleanor Francis was not alone and they were known as computers so at the time before the digital devices a computer simply meant a person who computes. Host how did that group woman together when women in technology, engineering that was being done at jpl was a rarity. Guest it ended up being an allwomen group simply because of macy roberts. In 1942 she was made supervisor of the computers and while she had men that applied for the job, she decided that she we wanted to make it all women and her thinking is that she wanted
On book tvs afterwards, Science Writer Nathalia Holt chronicles the lives of an elite group of people who worked at the jet Propulsion Laboratorys in the 40s and 50s. She talks about her book, rise of the rocket girls with lisa grande of the system is sony and national air and space museum. Host thank you very much Nathalia Holt for being here with me to talk about your research and your new book about the socalled rocket girls of the jet Propulsion Laboratory before thank you for having me. Host i would like to begin by asking you how you discovered this group of women and how you decided to write about this largely forgotten pieceof American History . Guest its a strange coincidence. I came across this story circa 2010 and my husband and i were expecting our first baby and we were having a really difficult time coming up with names. Finally my husband suggested Eleanor Francis and i wasnt sure until i did what parents do these days and i googled the name and what popped up was a woma
And toy im. Im frank molina holland. A chilly start in massachusetts. Im sure some people would like flakes. Temperatures starting in the 30s and the 20s. This is where we should be this time of year. 26 in orange. 35 degrees right now worcester. 39 boston. And even in the mid 40s on the islands. Winds kind of all over the place but generally today out of the north and east from 1015 miles an hour. Because of that, it creates a little bit of a windchill so feels more like34 degrees in boston and hyannis feels like 38 degrees. Highs will climb where they should be this time of year in the upper 40s and low 50s. We will see filtered sunshine. There will be a mix of sun and clouds. More clouds increasing, though, out ahead of the next system which was the snow you saw in the midwest. Still pummeling parts of chicago to st. Louis. St. Louis on the warm side of things. As it gets to our area we will be warming up to see the warmer side and see rain. So the rain chances going up as we head t
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