Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880-1945

Heide, Lars, 1950-,

Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880-1945 [print] Lars Heide. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations ; - Studies in industry and society . - Book collections on Project MUSE. Studies in industry and society. .



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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Information technology--Europe.
Information technology--United States.
Punched card systems.

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