IBM 001Card Punch

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IBM 001 Card Punch

Object Details

date made: after 1930

maker: International Business Machines Corporation

Description: For the first half of the 20th century, much data was entered into data processing machines using punched cards. This machine for punching such cards was manufactured by International Business Machines Corporation of New York.; This key-driven, manual punch has 14 black keys. Twelve are for the 12 rows on a punch card. These are labeled from 0 to 9, X, and blank. Another key moves the card one space to the left and the last releases it. Keys are fed in from the right. A portion of a punch card attached in back of the machine has a pointer attached to it which allows one to determine the column of the card one is punching. The device is set up for 80-column cards and punches rectangular holes. A cylindrical protrusion extends from the back of the machine.; A metal tag attached to the front of the object reads: PROPERTY OF (/) INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. (/) 001-12036-JH (/) ENDICOTT, NEW YORK, U.S.A. A mark stamped into the back of the card bed reads: 01 202.Two rods are marked at the front below the punching position: 202.; IBM cards with rectangular holes and 80 columns were introduced in 1928. Cards with 12 rows of holes date from the early 1930s.; Reference:; E. W. Pugh, Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995, pp. 48–49.
Location: Currently not on view

place made: United States: New York, Endicott

web subject: Mathematics

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Mathematics; Computers & Business Machines; Tabulating Equipment; Science & Mathematics

Credit Line: Transfer from U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Data Source: National Museum of American History

ID Number: MA.333894
accession number: 304350
catalog number: 333894

Object Name: card punch

Physical Description: metal (overall material); paper (overall material); plastic (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 11.8 cm x 43.7 cm x 18 cm; 4 21/32 in x 17 7/32 in x 7 3/32 in

Metadata Usage: CC0

GUID: https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-3ff6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID: nmah_694425