The Punched Card: Embodying Punched Card Operations in all types of Business and Industry
date: label: date made
content: 1952
notes: label: Description
content: This paperback book has a yellow and turquoise cover. It was published in 1952 by the Punched Card Publishing Company of Detroit, Michigan. The punch card was an early means of date storage that could be read by computers or sorted and calculated by fields by specialized machines. By the 1950s the punched card had moved beyond merely recording census data, and was across the corporate landscape for billing, transportation schedules, libraries, payroll, and inventory management. This book served as a trade publication for the Punched Card Publishing Company, illustrating better business practices and new uses of punch cards and devices for reading them.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: American Enterprise
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Tim Bergin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.3049.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 2013.3049
label: catalog number
content: 2013.3049.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documentation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.1 cm x 22.2 cm x 28 cm; 7/16 in x 8 3/4 in x 11 1/32 in