"My great-grandmother would talk about her uncles who served in the Maine Regiment during the Civil War, my great-grandfather’s work helping to build the Canadian railroad and Halifax harbour, the first time she used a flush toilet, talked on the phone (she still had a party line), road in automobile, and so forth. It made me appreciate how much technology transformed the world within a century."
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Women academics from the United StatesWomen born in the 1960sWellesley College alumniStanford University facultyHistorians of science
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