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Top secret Rosies : the female computers of World War II / producer/director/editor LeAnn Erickson ; writer Cynthia Baughman.
LIBRA DVD 017 162
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- ENIAC (Computer).
- Women mathematicians--History--20th century.
- Women mathematicians.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.
- History.
- Moore School of Electrical Engineering.
- University of Pennsylvania.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Widescreen.
- Other Title:
- Female computers of World War II
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : PBS, [2010]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC ; Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- In 1942, a secret U.S. military program was launched to recruit women to the war effort. But unlike the efforts to recruit Rosie the Riveter to the factory, this clandestine search targeted female mathematicians who would become human 'computers' for the U.S. Army. From the bombing of Axis Europe to the assaults on Japanese strongholds, women worked around-the-clock six days a week, creating ballistics tables that proved crucial to Allied success. Rosie made the weapons, but the female computers made them accurate. When the first electronic computer (ENIAC) was developed at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania, to aid the Army's calculation efforts, six of these women were tapped to become its first programmers.
- Participant:
- Narrator, LeAnn Erickson.
- Notes:
- Bonus feature: Trailer.
- ISBN:
- 9781608833320
- 1608833321
- OCLC:
- 693373098
- Publisher Number:
- 841887013352
- TOSR601 PBS
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