Printing Cylinder for IBM Punch Cards
date: label: date made
content: 1960s
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: This chrome-plated hollow brass cylinder has embossed on its outer surface the numbers and letters for an 80-column IBM punch card. Sections of the card are for several quantities associated with shipping (amount, miles, hours, job number, account number, rate per hour, department number, order number, day, month, etc.) The cylinder was used to print the IBM cards. According to the donor, the object dates from the early 1960s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Milton Schwartzbart
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0248.01
label: accession number
content: 1995.0248
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0248.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Printing Cylinder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: chrome (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.3 cm x 6 cm x 6 cm; 3 9/32 in x 2 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in