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Found in the Machine

Tidal Forces: Calculating D-Day

· 16 min · Season 1 Episode 15

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In 1944 the Allies needed to know exactly what the water would do on a coast called "Position Z." So a deaf mathematician and six young women in a basement near Liverpool calculated the future. In this episode Arthur Doodson: the deaf mathematician at the Liverpool Tidal Institute, the world's leading authority on tides, who guessed he was predicting a Normandy landing and said nothingSix women working as Computers: hired for their diligence, skill with numbers, and neat handwriting, t...

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