IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. IBM sometimes used punch cards to ...

Herman Hollerith, then a statistician with the US bureau of the Census formed a company called the Tabulating Machine Co. in 1896 to commercialize technology he had developed to help with the counting ...

On June 8, 1887, Herman Hollerith applied for US patent #395,781 for his punch card counting machine, a device considered to be among the foundations of the modern information processing industry and ...

IBM employees on an assembly line for the Ramac, the first computer with a hard drive, on August 29, 1959, in San Jose, California. BY Harry McCracken Next week, IBM is formally opening Watson West—a ...

The punch card, the first way to program a machine, turned 300 this year. The first semi-automatic loom was created in Lyon as early as 1725. To commemorate this, we have taken the liberty of updating ...