Mrs Helen Mann, emplyed by RCA, once confounded television’s ‘What’s My Line?’ panelists, who failed to guess her occupation. Holder of two degrees in physics, she helps prepare complicated test data for analysis by computers. Here she issues instructions to FLAC (Florida Automatic Computer) at Patrick Air Force Base.
(The 1950’s ‘space race’ with the Soviet Union meant that the USA gave more opportunities to women as they saw them to be ‘America’s biggest untapped source of brainpower’)
National Geographic, October 1959
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