The History of Terrorism
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Herman Hollerith
1890 In March 1890, Hollerith's machines were installed at the Inter-Ocean Building on Ninth Street in Washington, D.C., not far from the White House.
He oversaw the installation himself, running around and barking orders to workmen who were hoisting creaky wooden crates from the street to the third floor.
Soon the property was transformed from a nondescript office space into the bustling headquarters of the 11th census.
Hundreds of clerks worked around the clock in shifts, taking raw census data collected in the field and transferring it onto cards using specially designed hole punch machines and then passing the cards to another set of clerks who worked the...
...tabulators and sorters.
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Hundreds of clerks worked around the clock in shifts, taking raw census data collected in the field and transferring it onto cards using specially designed hole punch machines and then passing the cards to another set of clerks who worked the...
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Hollerith's machines clanked away all day and all night, with clerks crammed together like sweatshops workers.