From the early 20th century into the 1970s, Americans used punched cards to enter data onto tabulating equipment and then electronic computers. This early key-operated punch is based on patents of the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. During the 1880s the engineer Herman ...

Statistician and inventor Herman Hollerith became known as the father of modern automatic computation for his electric tabulating system, which revolutionized the US census. He was recruited to work ...

Pedestrian killed, another critically injured in train incident in West Palm Beach One person is dead and another is in critical condition after a train and pedestrian incident in West Palm Beach ...

Two Republican candidates for top statewide offices in Arizona have asked a court to bar the use of machines in tabulating ballots in the November midterm elections and instead have them counted by ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Two ballot tabulating machines to be used on election night next week passed public testing of the devices on Wednesday. Hughes County Finance Officer Thomas Oliva says the ...