Punch cards were produced to represent each citizen of the United States in 1900. U.S. Census Bureau It’s hard to imagine the U.S. Census being completed without the help of computers. What’s ...

Commissioned by the United States Census Bureau to make counting people easier, the device would lead to the creation of IBM After the United States Census Bureau dispatched its workers across the ...

1890: The U.S. Census Bureau uses a tabulating machine for the first time. Freed of the laborious process of hand-sorting its data, the bureau is able to produce a complete census within two years.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This machine was used to punch paper ...

1890 - The U.S. Constitution mandates a census, or headcount, of the country's population every ten years. When the Constitution was written, the main reason for the census was to know the number of ...

PROVO, UT--(Marketwire -08/29/12)- Ancestry.com, the world's largest online family history resource, announced today that it will for the first time ever provide free access to its entire collection ...

“WOULD it not be of great satisfaction to the king to know, at a designated moment every year, the number of his subjects?” A military engineer by the name of Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban posed this ...