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Via Feminist News.

Evelyn Berezin built the first word processor.

Her patents include:

• Information Transfer Apparatus
• Electronic Data File Processor
• Information Transfer System
• On-Line Data Transfer Apparatus
• Electrical Assemblage
• Data Processing System
• Arithmetic Device
• Electronic Calculator with Dynamic Recirculating Storage Register
• Control means with Record Sensing for an Electronic Calculator

Not only did she build the first word processor..

Among them was a system for the US Army for range calculations, a system for controlling the distribution of magazines, and what is now considered the first office computer.

..Which was entirely designed by herself. The first office computer.

I am furious I did not know her name.

Rest in power.

Let us take a moment to Respect the Woman that gave us one of the machines on which we rely the most in the modern world. 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They