Human Computers at NACA (NASA)
Human computers at work on Bell Computing Equipment in the 19" Pressure Tunnel at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory (LMAL), the main research center for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, the precursor to NASA). Before the development of electronic computers, the term "computer" referred to people, not machines. It was a job title, designating someone who performed mathematical equations and calculations by hand. The majority of computing work involved three components: reading film, running calculations, and plotting data. Ann Mattson is second from left. Photograph taken January 28, 1947.
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