Jean Jennings Bartik and Betty Holberton in LEGO

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This vignette is part of "Women of Computing," a project on the LEGO Ideas contest celebrating six pioneering women in technology. If this project receives 10,000 votes, you could soon buy one at a LEGO store near you!

Developed in the 1940s, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was the first programmable general-purpose digital computer. Betty (Snyder) Holberton and Jean Jennings Bartik were two of six pioneering women who led the programming of the ENIAC, which functioned in real-time but required extensive preparation for each calculation. Holberton and Bartik, the two lead programmers, are depicted with the ENIAC in this vignette; the other four women were Kay (McNulty) Mauchly, Marlyn (Wescoff) Meltzer, Fran (Bilas) Spence, and Ruth (Lichterman) Teitelbaum.

The full Women of NASA set includes four additional minifigures — of Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Gladys West, and Annie Easley — plus vignettes related to their own accomplishments.

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