The Resource Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race, Margot Lee Shetterly, (sound recording)
Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race, Margot Lee Shetterly, (sound recording)
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The item Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race, Margot Lee Shetterly, (sound recording) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
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- Summary
- Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens."--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
-
- Unabridged.
- Retail edition.
- Extent
- 9 audio discs (approximately 645 min.)
- Note
-
- Title from web page
- Compact discs
- Isbn
- 9780062667168
- Label
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Title
- Hidden figures
- Title remainder
- the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Statement of responsibility
- Margot Lee Shetterly
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens."--
- Assigning source
- adapted from publisher website
- Cataloging source
- TEFMT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Dewey number
- 510.92/520973
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- LC call number
- QA27.5
- LC item number
- .L44 2016ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
- other
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by Robin Miles
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Miles, Robin
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Women mathematicians
- African American women
- African American mathematicians
- United States
- Space race
- Target audience
- adult
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race, Margot Lee Shetterly, (sound recording)
- Note
-
- Title from web page
- Compact discs
- Capture and storage technique
- unknown
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
-
- Unabridged.
- Retail edition.
- Extent
- 9 audio discs (approximately 645 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9780062667168
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other control number
- 9780062667168
- Other physical details
- CD audio, digital
- Publisher number
- ZPc2sm
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
-
- 956882140
- (OCoLC)956882140
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race, Margot Lee Shetterly, (sound recording)
- Note
-
- Title from web page
- Compact discs
- Capture and storage technique
- unknown
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
-
- Unabridged.
- Retail edition.
- Extent
- 9 audio discs (approximately 645 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9780062667168
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other control number
- 9780062667168
- Other physical details
- CD audio, digital
- Publisher number
- ZPc2sm
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
-
- 956882140
- (OCoLC)956882140
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
Subject
- Audiobooks
- Audiobooks on compact disc
- Space race
- United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography
- African American mathematicians -- Biography
- African American women -- Biography
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Member of
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- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Race and Civil Rights
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice: Audio for Adults
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - E-Book Nonfiction
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