Record of Punching Cards at the New York Central for the Month of April 1904
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Object Details
- date made
- 1904
- Description
- From 1895 inventor Herman Hollerith wooed the New York Central Railroad as a commercial customer for his tabulating machines. This small paper card records his success. It reports that in April 1904, key punch operators at the Central punched a total of 428,502 cards, averaging 258 cards per clerk per hour. The record for one clerk was 70,535 cards punched, averaging 413 cards per hour.
- Reference: G. D. Austrian, Hermann Hollerith: Forgotten Pioneer of Information Processing , New York: Columbia University Press, 1982, pp. 111–141.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- web subject
- Mathematics
- Subject
- Railroads
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Computers & Business Machines
- Tabulating Equipment
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of Herman Hollerith, Jr.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 1977.0114.08.01
- accession number
- 1977.0114
- catalog number
- 1977.0114.08.01
- Object Name
- sheet
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .1 cm x 9 cm x 5.6 cm; 1/32 in x 3 17/32 in x 2 7/32 in
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- nmah_905317