Electrotype Printing Block Showing a Hollerith Pantograph Card Punch
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Object Details
- date made
- ca 1890
- Description
- This electrotype printing block is engraved in metal and attached to a wooden block. It shows a pantograph card punch on the design of Herman Hollerith.
- The engraving reads (in reverse print): THE HOLLERITH ELECTRIC TABULATING SYSTEM. It also reads (in reverse): BARTLETT & CO NY. An illustration that may have used a similar block appeared in an 1890 article on the Hollerith tabulating system published in Manufacturer and Builder.
- For related objects, see MA.312896 and 2011.3121.01
- References:
- "Further Details of the Hollerith Electric Tabulating System," Manufacturer and Builder, May 22, 1890, pp. 118–119.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- web subject
- Mathematics
- Census, US
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Tabulating Equipment
- Science & Mathematics
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Hollerith Family
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 1977.0503.01
- catalog number
- 336120
- accession number
- 1977.0503
- Object Name
- electrotype printing block
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.3 cm x 10.5 cm x 5.5 cm; 29/32 in x 4 1/8 in x 2 5/32 in
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- nmah_1213836