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Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
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Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2016]
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English
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Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as "Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America's...
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HarperCollins Espa�nol
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[2017]
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Español
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En el contexto del Sur de Jim Crow con su segregaci�on racial, y el movimiento de derechos civiles. Esta es la verdadera historia, nunca antes contada, de las mujeres afroamericanas de la NASA expertas en matem�aticas, que desempe�naron un papel crucial en el programa espacial de Estados Unidos, y cuyas contribuciones han permanecido an�onimas... hasta ahora.Antes de que John Glenn girara en �orbita alrededor de la Tierra, o Neil Armstrong...
