Image: Astronomer Edward Charles Pickering's Harvard computers
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Description: "Pickering's Harem," so-called, for the group of women computers at the Harvard College Observatory, who worked for the astronomer Edward Charles Pickering. The group included Harvard computer and astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921), Annie Jump Cannon (1863–1941), Williamina Fleming (1857–1911), and Antonia Maury (1866–1952).
Title: Astronomer Edward Charles Pickering's Harvard computers
Credit: http://bookhistory.harvard.edu/takenote/sites/default/files/attachments/Computers_1890.jpg
Author: Harvard College Observatory
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