skygiants: Nellie Bly walking a tightrope among the stars (bravely trotted)
skygiants ([personal profile] skygiants) wrote 2014-10-01 09:28 pm (UTC)

Right? When she's like, "this work was performed on the backs of several thousand WRENs, please don't forget that" -- yep. I was really glad they included it. I also appreciated how almost everyone took time to remark on how amazing the telegraph operators who intercepted the coded signals were, especially since they had no idea what their intercepts were being used for or why it was important.

It's also kind of inspiring to think about all the tedious-and-nitpicky-but-necessary work that went into it when one happens to be performing tedious-and-nitpicky-but-necessary tasks of one's own!

Post a comment in response:

This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting