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The Innovators
Great show Dr. Rosa.
I am currently reading 'The Innovators'. You would really dig the first 200 pages. It describes the work that Ada Lovelace did to conceptualize the first computer in the mid-1800s. Then, 100 years later it goes into the female "Computers" at Harvard, working on the Harvard Mark I. There was a large contingent of female "computers" at the uPenn, where ENIAC, EDVAC and UNIVAC were created. Grace Hopper, who was a mathematician, and was responsible for creating the first programming languages.
The men who created these machines, physicists, and engineers, typically thought of these jobs as little more than secretarial positions. At the time, these were staffed by women. However, WWII produced more female mathematicians and it was these women who were instrumental in driving the technology to be the precursors of what we now know today as personal computers, laptops, tablets and mobile phones.
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