75 years ago, a room-sized machine changed the world: The story of UNIVAC I

This year marks 75 years since one of the most important machines in computing history was switched on for the very first ...
Raleigh News & Observer

Past Times: Counting machines improved the census

Punch cards were produced to represent each citizen of the United States in 1900. U.S. Census Bureau It’s hard to imagine the U.S. Census being completed without the help of computers. What’s ...
insider.si.edu

U.S. Bureau of the Census Tabulating Machine

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From 1890 through 1950, information ...
The Atlantic

Old, Weird Tech: Hollerith 1890 Census Tabulating Machine

Commissioned by the United States Census Bureau to make counting people easier, the device would lead to the creation of IBM After the United States Census Bureau dispatched its workers across the ...
PBS

the Hollerith Machine

1890 - The U.S. Constitution mandates a census, or headcount, of the country's population every ten years. When the Constitution was written, the main reason for the census was to know the number of ...