CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mass Society, Offset Printing, United States Census Bureau

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In 1887, the us census bureau was still interpreting figures from the 1880 census. For the 1890 census, the census bureau adopted electric tabulating machines designed by. Herman hollerith 46,804 enumerator machines completed forms for a total population of 67,979,766 . The hollerith tabulator opened the door for the adoption of calculating machines by business standard equipment in insurance companies, public utility companies, railroad offices, and accounting departments . This apparatus works unerringly as the mills of the gods, but beats them hallow as to speed the electrical engineer, november 11, 1891. The 1890 tabulator was capable only of counting. Subsequent models were also able to add, thus broadening their scope to accounting, warehousing, and shipping applications. Between 1902 and 1905, hollerith also developed an automatic card feed and a method for reading cards in motion and settled on a standard card format.

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