Object Details
- Hollerith, Herman
- Description
- This is the celluloid plate from the front of a pantograph card punch. The instrument was patented by Herman Hollerith and used in the U. S. Census of population in 1890. A mark on it reads: THE HOLLERITH ELECTRIC TABULATING SYSTEM (/) System Patented January 8th 1889.
- Compare MA.312896.
- Reference:
- Leon E. Truesdell, The Development of Punch Card Tabulation in the Bureau of the Census 1890–1940, Washington: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1965, pp. 43–44.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Virginia Hollerith and Lucia Hollerith
- ca 1890
- ID Number
- MA.317982.03
- accession number
- 317982
- catalog number
- 317982.03
- Object Name
- punch board
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .3 cm x 30 cm x 12 cm; 1/8 in x 11 13/16 in x 4 23/32 in
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Tabulating Equipment
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- web subject
- Mathematics
- Census, US
- Record ID
- nmah_694417
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-38f4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
