Dr. Gladys Mae West: Charting a Course
The mathematician who created the most accurate maps of Earth and became "the Mother of GPS".
Lindsey Oberhelman
Apr 26 min read
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Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008) was the first known Native American woman engineer. She had lofty goals of interplanetary space travel and thought far ahead of her time.
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