Improvements in the methods of and apparatus for compiling statistics: complete specification
The original patent specification, and thus the first printed account, of the Hollerith electric tabulating machine. Contains 7 pages of patent application and 3 fold-out diagrams of proposed machine.
Item Details
- Date
- 1889 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- B332.85
- Organization
- Darling and Son, Ltd (Publisher)
- People
- Herman Hollerith (Author)
- Category
- Book
- Credit line
- The Gwen Bell Early Book Collection of Algorithms, Tables, and History of Calculations
- Extent
- 7, [3] p.
- Place of publication
- Europe/England/London
- Language
- English
- Dimension
- 8w x 3/8h x 11 1/4l (in)
20.32w x 0.95h x 28.58l (cm) - Acquisition number
- X7090.2014
- Archive collection
- Guide to the Gwen Bell artifact and book collection
- Archive hierarchy
- Algorithms, tables, and history of calculation books