Punch Cards in the Style of Charles Babbage
date: label: date made
content: 1840-style
notes: label: Description
content: In 1840, the English mathematician Charles Babbage visited Europe, spending considerable time in the Italian city of Turin, where he expounded on the principles of his analytical engine. These punch cards represent his thinking about how the operation of a computing device might be controlled by punch cards.
label: Description
content: One card is white on both sides. The other is tan on one side and grayish-brown on the other. Each card has round holes at both ends, as well as two rows of round holes in the middle. There also are cuts in the top and bottom edges.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Italy: Piedmont, Turin
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Punch Cards
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.3054.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1992.3054
label: catalog number
content: 1992.3054.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: punch cards
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall - each: 12.9 cm x 5.6 cm; 5 3/32 in x 2 7/32 in