Heide, Lars, 1950-

Punched-card systems and the early information explosion, 1880-1945 [electronic resource] / Lars Heide. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. - 369 p. : ill. - Studies in industry and society . - Studies in industry and society. .

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


Electronic books.

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