A multiple-exposure image of Nikola Tesla with his “magnifying transmitter” in Colorado Springs, circa 1901.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson throwing shade in “Sisters of the Sun”
The number of men who hired women, used women, and then took credit for the work and discoveries THEY made is rampant throughout history and disgusting.
Boom.
While this is true and important, I’d like to point out that their names aren’t featured on this post.
Cecilia Payne (who discovered the chemical composition of stars and that they consist largely of hydrogen)
Annie Jump Cannon (developed the first catalog for the spectral characteristics of stars)
TROYON, Constant
Setting off to Market
1859
Oil on canvas, 261 x 211 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Victoria Stilwell & IBM Watson on Pet Health
IBM Watson is working with veterinarians to help improve pet health. An intelligent decision support tool powered by Watson assists veterinarians in making quick decisions by processing natural language and enabling interactions that are more aligned with how humans think and interact. Learn more at http://ibm.co/1NeyLb5
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FIRST FLIGHT – On December 17, 1903 at 10:30am at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, an airplane (in the bottom image) rose up for a few seconds to make the first powered, heavier-than-air flight in history. The first flight lasted 12 seconds at a distance of 120 feet. Orville Wright piloted the plane while his brother, Wilbur, observed. The Wright brothers took three more flights that day, each one lasting longer than the other with the final flight going a distance of 852 feet in 59 seconds.
(Sources: New York Public Library, NASA, Archive.org, Wikimedia Commons)
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When I see footage of women programming in the 1940s I get chills. There were many female programmers in the 1940s and ’50s, and they made major contributions to the field. Programming was originally seen as a ‘female profession.’ I want people to know names like Betty Holberton, Jean Bartik, Katherine Johnson, and Annie Easley, in addition to Grace Hopper.”
I think informing women and girls about their past and exciting them for the future go hand in hand.
Gillian Jacobs on her documentary short The Queen of Code available to watch HERE.
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