“Again, it was dumb luck, because we had all the ability to set type.”

He later operated a linotype, a machine used to set type and print newspapers and magazines.

"I hope scrolling through the images underscores that you can't narrowly define women and there is no set 'type' of person that should pursue STEM," she says.

IF YOU imagine there’s nothing less exciting than watching paint dry, imagine the hordes who poured into middle-brow entertainment centres called dime museums in the 1880s to watch compositors set type by hand.

I worked ninety-hour weeks, my telephone rang constantly, I was always hurrying off to interviews and checking the ten- dollar Rolex I’d bought on the street to make sure I wasn’t running late, rushing back to file my copy, and staying up until four a.m. to set type when the typesetter quit.