Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880–1945 / Lars Heide.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in industry and society | Studies in industry and society | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (376 pages): illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421427874
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 004/.9 22
LOC classification:
  • HF5548 .H387 2009
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Contents:
Punched cards and the 1890 United States census -- New users, new machines -- U.S. challengers to Hollerith -- The rise of international business machines -- Decline of punched cards for European census processing -- Punched cards for general statistics in Europe -- Different roads to European punched-card bookkeeping -- Keeping tabs on society with punched cards.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-350) and index.

Punched cards and the 1890 United States census -- New users, new machines -- U.S. challengers to Hollerith -- The rise of international business machines -- Decline of punched cards for European census processing -- Punched cards for general statistics in Europe -- Different roads to European punched-card bookkeeping -- Keeping tabs on society with punched cards.

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