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This episode Megan and Milena cover Margaret Hamilton, NASA’s first software engineer & Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart,
Duchess of Uzès, a wealthy aristocratic French sculptor
Margaret Hamilton
Look at this fierce lady. This is the face of a woman who made it possible for man to get to the moon. Margaret Hamilton is a brilliant software engineer that made the Apollo lunar landing possible, as well as developed her own math theory AND programming language.
Wut.
Hamilton practically lived in her office. Look at that determination. LOOK. AT. IT.
Here it is, the famous picture that literally everyone has seen on Facebook of Hamilton standing next to the handwritten code that made the lunar mission so successful. It’s as tall as her. And now you can remember her name!
Here’s our girl representing MIT, the school that developed and hosted the Laboratory that Hamilton worked for while she was working on the Apollo missions.
Hamilton is featured in the Lego set, aptly named “Women of NASA.” She stars alongside Mae Jemison, Sally Ride, and Nancy Grace Roman. Stay tuned for those ladies!
And here is Hamilton receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the one and only Barack Obama. We are deceased.
Marie Adrienne Anne Victurnienne Clementine de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Duchesse d’Uzès
Also known as Anne
Anne is a type of rich you and I will never know. And not like buying name brand sugar rich, or Tesla rich, or ‘oh look at me I have a 401k with dental and vision insurance benefits’ rich, but ‘oldest noble French family that dates back to the 730’s’ rich.
And yeah, having a long family line doesn’t make you rich, but the accumulation of centuries worth of power and money does help. Thankfully for us Annie was the type of woman, which upon her deathbed, had spent the majority of her wealth. Even luckier for us she used it on art and feminism. This episode we cover how badass she was spending that money, making the world a better place because of it.
Family History
Selected Sculptures
Speed Demon Anne
- Madame Clicquot – Great-grandmother to Anne and badass French businesswoman
- Château de Boursault – The
country housefucking castle where Anne spent most of her time - France’s Third Republic – Oh, just the government that Anne hoped to over throw in order to reestablish the monarchy
- General George Boulanger – The “gifted liar” who talked Anne into giving him a shitton of money in order to go about the over throw of the Republic.
- Wolf Lieutenant – A ceremonial position carrying game warren rights, Anne was the first woman to hold the title
- Lyceum Club of Paris – Anne was president over the club, for women interested in art, science and social works
- Louise Michel – Considered the founder of anarchist feminism and friend to Anne
- Society of Men of Letters of France – One of the groups Anne was a member of
- Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers – Along with her social work and art, Anne was a accomplished writer
- 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago – You know, the World Fair that HH Holmes murdered people at. While not at, but at his death/murder hotel. Worse Airbrb ever
- Antonin Mercie – Surgeon that developed mobile health care units with Anne during WWI
As always, music by EeL