When Computers Were Human (81 page)

Wealth of Nations. See
Smith, Adam

Weaver, Warren,
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Weeks, Sinclair,
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Winlock, Joseph,
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Wisconsin, University of,
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computers, human, wages of
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computers, human, working conditions of
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Blanch, Gertrude
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Cave-Brown-Cave, Beatrice
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Clem, Mary
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Froelich, Clara
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Goldstine, Adele
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Krampe, Charlotte
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Lepaute, Nicole-Reine
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Lee, Alice
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Mitchell, Maria
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Persily, Matilda
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Rhodes, Ida
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Saunders, Rhoda
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Stegun, Irene
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Tausky, Olga
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Wilson, Elizabeth Webb
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Weldon, Florence Tebb
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Winlock, Anna

Wood, Benjamin,
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See also
Mathematical Tables Project

World War, First.
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First World War

World War, Second.
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Second World War

World's Columbian Exposition,
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World's Congress Auxilliary

World's Congress Auxiliary,
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World's Fair: 1867 Paris,
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see
World's Columbian Exposition
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WPA.
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Work Projects Administration

wranglers,
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Yeomans, Donald,
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Yowell, Everrett: father,
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Zeppelins,
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Illustration Credits

The sources of visual material are as follows (numerals refer to figures)
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By permission of AT&T Archives (27); by permission of Brown University (36); courtesy of European Space Agency (46); courtesy of Joan Gallup Grier (1); by permission of Harvard University Libraries (14); by permission of Iowa State University Library/Special Collections Department (26, 34); courtesy of Library of Congress (2, 3a, 3b, 5, 7–10, 12, 13, 15–19, 23, 25, 29, 33, 35, 37, 41); courtesy of Library of Congress, Manuscript Division (4a, 4b, 20); by permission of the MIT Museum (42); courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration (24, 32, 38, 40, 45); by permission of Paris Observatory (3c); by permission of Schlesinger Library, Harvard University (21, 22, 28); by permission of the Science Museum, London (6); courtesy of Smithsonian Institution (11); courtesy of Stern Family (31, 44); courtesy of John Todd (39, 43); by permission of Yeshiva University (30).