Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880-1945 [electronic resource] / Lars Heide

Author: Heide, Lars, 1950-
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (369 pages :) : illustrations ;.
Additional Creators: Project Muse

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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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0801898722
9780801898723
0801891434 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801891434 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-350) and index.

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