because health is everything. in tonight s rewrite computers. the definition of the word computer had to be rewritten to apply to machines. here s a photograph of the first harvard scientists who used computers constantly in his daily work. that s professor edward charles pickering in the necktie there in 1913 outside the harvard observatory with 13 of his computers. long before computers were machines, they were women. those women made records of the data observed by professor pickering and some astroners, all men, who did the manly work of gasing at the stars and photographing thenl through har ward s powerful telescope.
machines, they were women. those women made records of the data observed by professor pickering and some astroners, all men, who did the manly work of gasing at the stars and photographing thenl through har ward s powerful telescope. doing the calculations and the computations necessary for the data to form a pattern and tell us about the university fell entirely to women. women computers. it didn t b start that way. professor pickering had a young harvard man doing that work for him, computing. but professor pickering was so frustrated with the quality of the young man s work, he once said his maid could do a better job. and so professor pickering fired