Electrotype Printing Block Showing a Hollerith Pantograph Card Punch
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
notes: label: Description
content: This electrotype printing block is engraved in metal and attached to a wooden block. It shows a pantograph card punch on the design of Herman Hollerith.
label: Description
content: The engraving reads (in reverse print): THE HOLLERITH ELECTRIC TABULATING SYSTEM. It also reads (in reverse): BARTLETT & CO NY. An illustration that may have used a similar block appeared in an 1890 article on the Hollerith tabulating system published in <I>Manufacturer and Builder</I>.
label: Description
content: For related objects, see MA.312896 and 2011.3121.01
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content: References:
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content: "Further Details of the Hollerith Electric Tabulating System," <I>Manufacturer and Builder</I>, May 22, 1890, pp. 118–119.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Mathematics
label: web subject
content: Census
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Tabulating Equipment
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Hollerith Family
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0503.01
label: catalog number
content: 336120
label: accession number
content: 1977.0503
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electrotype printing block
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.3 cm x 10.5 cm x 5.5 cm; 29/32 in x 4 1/8 in x 2 5/32 in