|
Notes
1. Herman Hollerith, "Complete Specification: Improvements in the Methods of and Apparatus for Compiling Statistics," http://www.computerhistory.org/archive/Hollerith patent.pdf (Computer History Museum, accessed 2004 Sep 15).
This is the original patent of the card tabulating machinery for the 1890 US census.
2. Herman Hollerith, "An Electric Tabulating System" in The Quarterly vol. 10, no. 16 (Columbia University School of Mines, 1889 Apr), 238-255. Also available online at http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/hh/index.html (Columbia University, accessed 2004 Sep 22).
"[Hollerith] describes the devices and methods he developed to automate the 1890 US Census; it is the basis for his 1890 Columbia Ph.D." -- From the preface by Frank da Cruz.
Bibliography
"Historical Forms and Questions: 1890," http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/photos/Histforms/1890/His90FQ.html (US Census Bureau, accessed 2004 Sep 23).
From Philip Leicht 2004 Sep 22.
"PhotoZone | Historical Info," http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/photos/historical.html (US Census Bureau, accessed 2004 Sep 23).
Kellee Blake, "'First in the Path of the Firemen,' The Fate of the 1890 Population Census," Prologue 28, no. 1 (U. S. National Archives & Records Administration, Spring 1996). Also available online at http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/spring_1996_1890_census_1.html (U. S. National Archives & Records Administration, accessed 2003 Sep 24).
Martin Campbell-Kelly, "Punch-Card Machinery," Chap. 4 in Computing Before Computers (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1990). Also available online at http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/DocumentArchive/Documents/Books/Computing Before Computers/CBC-Ch-04.pdf (Computer History Museum, accessed 2003 Mar 19). [dg]
Donald E. Knuth. The Art of Computer Programming, vol. 3, Sorting and Searching (Addison-Wesley, 1973).
|