Badge from Cruft Laboratory of Harvard University
date: label: date made
content: ca 1944
notes: label: Description
content: This metal badge reads "Cruft Laboratory, Staff No. 62, Harvard University", and was donated to the Smithsonian by Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992). Hopper had joined the United States Naval Reserves in December 1943 and attended the Naval Reserve Midshipman’s School for Women through June 1944. She was then posted to the U.S. Navy’s Computation project that was housed at the Cruft Laboratory.
label: Description
content: Hopper had a PhD in mathematics (Yale 1934) and her assignment was to write computer code for the Mark I computer, formally known as the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. Hopper continued working at the Harvard Computational Laboratory until 1949 although she, along with other women in the Naval Reserve, had been released from active duty in 1946.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Women's History
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Women Mathematicians
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Grace Murray Hopper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0093.01
label: accession number
content: 1989.0093
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0093.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: badge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .5 cm x 5.2 cm x 5.2 cm; 3/16 in x 2 1/16 in x 2 1/16 in