Electrical Component Associated with Herman Hollerith
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
notes: label: Description
content: This metal component includes a wooden framework painted black. An interrupter is at one end, and an electromagnet within the box. Herman Hollerith was the first inventor to build successful computing devices based on electromagnets. This may have been a part of a tabulating machine.
label: Description
content: This piece does not seem to match any drawing in Hollerith’s patents.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web 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: Tabulating Equipment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Richard Hollerith Jr. for the Herman Hollerith Family
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.3037.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1995.3037
label: catalog number
content: 1995.3037.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tabulating machine component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.3 cm x 3.2 cm x 15 cm; 2 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in x 5 29/32 in