TY - BOOK AU - Heide,Lars ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Punched-card systems and the early information explosion, 1880-1945 T2 - Studies in industry and society AV - HF5548 .H387 2009eb U1 - 004/.9 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Punched card systems KW - Information technology KW - United States KW - Europe KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-350) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/welingkar/Doc?id=10381425 ER -