Electrotype Printing Block Showing a Hollerith Pantograph Card Punch

Electrotype Printing Block with Hollerith Pantograph Card Punch

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Object Details

Description

This electrotype printing block is engraved in metal and attached to a wooden block. It shows a pantograph card punch on the design of Herman Hollerith.

The engraving reads (in reverse print): THE HOLLERITH ELECTRIC TABULATING SYSTEM. It also reads (in reverse): BARTLETT & CO NY. An illustration that may have used a similar block appeared in an 1890 article on the Hollerith tabulating system published in Manufacturer and Builder.

For related objects, see MA.312896 and 2011.3121.01

References:

"Further Details of the Hollerith Electric Tabulating System," Manufacturer and Builder, May 22, 1890, pp. 118–119.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of the Hollerith Family

date made

ca 1890

ID Number

1977.0503.01

catalog number

336120

accession number

1977.0503

Object Name

electrotype printing block

Physical Description

wood (overall material)

metal (overall material)

Measurements

overall: 2.3 cm x 10.5 cm x 5.5 cm; 29/32 in x 4 1/8 in x 2 5/32 in

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Medicine and Science: Mathematics

Tabulating Equipment

Science & Mathematics

Data Source

National Museum of American History

web subject

Mathematics

Census

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-927c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_1213836