Punched-card systems and the early information explosion, 1880-1945 / Lars Heide.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heide, Lars, 1950-

Series:

Studies in industry and society.

Studies in industry and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Punched card systems.

Information technology--United States.

Information technology.

Information technology--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comparative study will interest students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including the history of technology, computer science, business history, and management and organizational studies.

Contents:

Punched cards and the 1890 United States census

New users, new machines

U.S. challengers to Hollerith

The rise of international business machines

Decline of punched cards for European census processing

Punched cards for general statistics in Europe

Different roads to European punched-card bookkeeping

Keeping tabs on society with punched cards.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-350) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-9872-2

OCLC:

923194857

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access