Punched-card systems and the early information explosion, 1880-1945

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heide, Lars, 1950-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Series:Studies in industry and society.
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Table of 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.