Via Feminist News.
Evelyn Berezin built the first word processor.
Her patents include:
- Information Transfer Apparatus
- Electronic Data File Processor
- Information Transfer System
- On-Line Data Transfer Apparatus
- Electrical Assemblage
- Data Processing System
- Arithmetic Device
- Electronic Calculator with Dynamic Recirculating Storage Register
- Control means with Record Sensing for an Electronic Calculator
Not only did she build the first word processor..
Among them was a system for the US Army for range calculations, a system for controlling the distribution of magazines, and what is now considered the first office computer.
..Which was entirely designed by herself. The first office computer.
I am furious I did not know her name.
Rest in power.
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