• DocumentCode
    1269866
  • Title

    Shaping a technology: American punched card systems 1880-1914

  • Author

    Heide, Lars

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of History & Western Civilization, Odense Univ., Denmark
  • Volume
    19
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1997
  • Firstpage
    28
  • Lastpage
    41
  • Abstract
    This paper addresses the initial development of the first punched-card system in the United States in the 1880s and the construction of the next punched-card machine generation, launched in 1907. Finally, aspects of punched-card systems in the 1910s give a perspective on this history
  • Keywords
    history; punched card equipment; American punched card systems; USA; history; punched card machines; technology development; Erbium; History;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/85.627897
  • Filename
    627897