Punch cards have been used to control the operation of machinery from the early nineteenth century, when the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard patented an attachment to a loom in which a series of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. These two thirty-seven column punch ...

Earlier this month, IBM celebrated its 100th birthday. It wasn't called IBM back in 1911, though: It was lumbered with the high-tech-for-its-time name of Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, the ...