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An Apollo programmer stands beside a stack of printouts. ENIAC programmers reach for switches along a wall of panels. A physicist checks orbital calculations at a desk. These photographs show the people who made early computing work, and the tools they had at hand.

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Margaret Hamilton Beside Apollo Flight Software
Margaret Hamilton Beside Apollo Flight Software: Hamilton stands beside a stack of printed listings in 1969 at MIT. The…
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Grace Hopper at a UNIVAC Solid State Console
Grace Hopper at a UNIVAC Solid State Console: Hopper operates a UNIVAC Solid State computer in 1961. Her work on early…
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Jean Jennings Bartik and Frances Bilas Spence at ENIAC
Jean Jennings Bartik and Frances Bilas Spence at ENIAC: Bartik, at left, adjusts a bank of dials, while Spence sets a dial…
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Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley
Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley: A globe and a mechanical calculating machine sit on Johnson's desk in 1962. That year…
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Tim Berners-Lee and Nicola Pellow at CERN
Tim Berners-Lee and Nicola Pellow at CERN: Berners-Lee and Pellow sit by an early Web computer in 1992. Pellow wrote the…
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Mary Allen Wilkes at the LINC
Mary Allen Wilkes at the LINC: Wilkes works at a Laboratory Instrument Computer. She wrote the LAP6 operating system for…
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Betty Holberton and Glen Beck at ENIAC
Betty Holberton and Glen Beck at ENIAC: Holberton, at right, works at ENIAC with Beck in the Army's Ballistic Research…
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Dorothy Vaughan With Fellow Langley Mathematicians
Dorothy Vaughan With Fellow Langley Mathematicians: Vaughan sits at left with colleagues Lessie Hunter and Vivian Adair…
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Annie Easley at NASA Lewis
Annie Easley at NASA Lewis: Easley works in the Engine Research Building’s Central Control Room in 1981 at what is now…
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Maurice Wilkes and Bill Renwick at EDSAC
Maurice Wilkes and Bill Renwick at EDSAC: Wilkes and Renwick stand in front of EDSAC at Cambridge. The machine ran its…
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Douglas Engelbart at an On-Line System Terminal
Douglas Engelbart at an On-Line System Terminal: At Stanford Research Institute in 1969, Engelbart uses a mouse and a…

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