Punch Board for a Hollerith Pantograph Card Punch
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
name: label: maker
content: Hollerith, Herman
notes: label: Description
content: This is the celluloid plate from the front of a pantograph card punch. The instrument was patented by Herman Hollerith and used in the U. S. Census of population in 1890. A mark on it reads: THE HOLLERITH ELECTRIC TABULATING SYSTEM (/) System Patented January 8th 1889.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.312896.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Leon E. Truesdell, <I>The Development of Punch Card Tabulation in the Bureau of the Census 1890–1940</I>, Washington: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1965, pp. 43–44.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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 Virginia Hollerith and Lucia Hollerith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.317982.03
label: accession number
content: 317982
label: catalog number
content: 317982.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: punch board
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .3 cm x 30 cm x 12 cm; 1/8 in x 11 13/16 in x 4 23/32 in