Project Y Computing

During World War II fourteen women of Project Y, the Los Alamos part of the Manhattan project, made an amazing behind-the-scenes contribution to the war effort-- they acted as the computers for the whole project!

-Learn how production lines of women were able to work as fast as the "computers" of the time

-Try your hand at using a mechanical calculator like the ones these women used

Are you as fast as a 1943 "computer"?