What role did they play in the development of scientific breakthroughs?What role did gender and race play in the status of these jobs?

Human Capital: research the use of people to perform computational tasks in the centuries and years leading up to the invention of mechanical and electronic computers.

These people were known as “human computers.” What role did they play in the development of scientific breakthroughs?What role did gender and race play in the status of these jobs? How did the attitudes toward human computers shape the way modern society views the role of computers and computer scientists?