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Author: ParaCrawl Corpus
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English[en]
In this period prior to modern computers, women at the United States Naval Observatory (USNO), Harvard University, and other astronomy research institutions began to be hired as human "computers", who performed the tedious calculations while scientists performed research requiring more background knowledge.
Swedish[sv]
Före datorernas genombrott var kvinnor ofta ansvariga för att utföra beräkningar vid institut som bedrev astronomisk forskning, såsom United States Naval Observatory och Harvard University i USA.