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Autore |
Heide Lars <1950-> |
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Titolo |
Punched-card systems and the early information explosion, 1880-1945 / / Lars Heide |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in industry and society |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Punched card systems |
Information technology - United States |
Information technology - Europe |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-350) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This comparative study will interest students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including the history of technology, computer science, business history, and management and organizational studies. |
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