Record of Punching Cards at the New York Central for the Month of April 1904
date: label: date made
content: 1904
notes: label: Description
content: From 1895 inventor Herman Hollerith wooed the New York Central Railroad as a commercial customer for his tabulating machines. This small paper card records his success. It reports that in April 1904, key punch operators at the Central punched a total of 428,502 cards, averaging 258 cards per clerk per hour. The record for one clerk was 70,535 cards punched, averaging 413 cards per hour.
label: Description
content: Reference: G. D. Austrian, <I>Hermann Hollerith: Forgotten Pioneer of Information Processing </I>, New York: Columbia University Press, 1982, pp. 111–141.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Railroads
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Tabulating Equipment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Estate of Herman Hollerith, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0114.08.01
label: accession number
content: 1977.0114
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0114.08.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 9 cm x 5.6 cm; 1/32 in x 3 17/32 in x 2 7/32 in