Smooth Air, Open Doors: Mary W. Jackson | Kitson Teaches Pro, Book 8
Kitson Teaches Pro, Book 8: the story of Mary W. Jackson, whom NASA calls its first Black woman engineer, and the 1958 wind-tunnel research she co-wrote on where fast-moving air over a surface turns from smooth to rough.
A regular book in plain, readable prose (46 pages, PDF), written for working professionals, engineers and curious adults. What is inside:
- Boundary layers explained properly: smooth flow, rough flow and why it matters
- The 1958 cone tests in a supersonic wind tunnel, explained
- Schlieren photographs: how engineers see air
- Her path through the agency, told with dated public facts only
- Mentoring and opening doors for others
- Lessons for engineers and professionals today
Every fact is sourced, and the full list of sources with access dates is at the back. Where sources disagree, the book says so.
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