Dora Metcalf
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Dora Metcalf
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Dora Stuart Primrose Metcalf was an India-born Irish entrepreneur, mathematician and computing pioneer. During World War I she was a comptometer operator in a munitions factory during which time she realised the potential in the mechanical descendants of the abacus. During World War II she was involved with supplying the "bombe" decryption machines to the codebreakers at Bletchley Park in England.
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Anglo-Irish entrepreneur, engineer and mathematician
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2023-12-26T15:34:06Z
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