136 years ago one of the agents employed to work on the 1880 US Census possessed a genius for inventing and innovating machinery. He figured out that if the information was put on cards by punching holes in certain positions then the counting process could be performed by machines. In 1884 he set up a ...
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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/fable/fable-man-built-machines-2016-10/
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