1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Hidden Figures Way Designation Act . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) before the development of electronic computers, the term computer was a job title designating individuals at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (referred to in this section as NACA ), which would later become the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (referred to in this section as NASA ), who performed mathematical equations and calculations by hand; (2) in 1935, Virginia Tucker received notice of her appointment to Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory and joined 4 other women in the first computer pool at the laboratory; (3) by 1942, human computers had become essential to operations at NACA, as indicated in a memo dated April of that year which stated that the engineers admit themselves that the girl computers do the work more rapidly and accurately than they could ; (4) over the next 30 years, hundreds of women, mostly with degrees in math or other sciences, would serve as human computers; (5) reading, calculating, and plotting data from tests in the wind tunnels and research divisions at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, human computers played an integral role in aeronautical and aerospace research at the laboratory from the mid 1930s into the 1970s; (6) the majority of computing work at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory involved reading film, running calculations, and plotting data; (7) the computing work described in paragraph (6) was done by hand, using slide rules, curves, magnifying glasses, and basic calculating machines, like the Marchant or the more popular Friden, which could multiply and calculate square roots; (8) human computers played an integral role during World War II; (9) between 1941 and 1945, employee numbers at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory increased from 940 to 3,220