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Want more stories about bad ass ladies from fashion and textile history? Comment “Revolution” for information on Cassidy’s upcoming, live course: What Women Wore to the Revolution! You can also head to dressedhistory.com/classes for full details. Episode 560 of @dressed_podcast: Fashion History Now #69 From clothes curtains to computer microchips to calico doll dresses, in the latest edition of Fashion History Now, we explore the fascinating—and surprising stories— quite literally woven into the clothes we wear and the technology we use. That includes the history literally woven by women into the Apollo lunar landings of the 1960s and 1970s: “ Raytheon employed skilled women, many with textile backgrounds, to hand-weave the core rope memory for the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) between the 1960s and early 1970s, a critical process that stored software as hardware and enabled the success of the moon missions. These “weavers” meticulously threaded wires through and around tiny iron cores to encode binary data, a complex task that required immense manual dexterity and skill. Their vital contributions, though largely unacknowledged at the time, were essential to the Apollo program and represent a unique intersection of traditional crafts and advanced technology.” #dressed560
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