Printing & Information Machines
Punched-card tabulating machine
A tabulating machine reads encoded information from punched cards and accumulates results. Herman Hollerith's census work helped establish punched-card equipment as a major system for processing business and government data.
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A tabulating machine reads encoded information from punched cards and accumulates results. Herman Hollerith's census work helped establish punched-card equipment as a major system for processing business and government data.
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Documented image of this machine or its operating principle; see image credits for the original date and subject.
Image: HollerithMachine.CHM.jpg
Creator: Adam Schuster
License: CC BY 2.0
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