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Author Heide, Lars, 1950-

Title Punched-card systems and the early information explosion, 1880-1945 [electronic resource] / Lars Heide.

Imprint Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 369 p. : ill.
Series Studies in industry and society
Studies in industry and society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-350) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Punched card systems.
Information technology -- United States.
Information technology -- Europe.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780801891434 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801891434 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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