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After Herman Hollerith designs his punch-card tabulating machine for the 1890 U.S. Census and founds the company that will become IBM, the idea of computers slowly gathers steam...
...Designing with disabilities in mind is not a matter of designing for some incomprehensible, mysterious group of users, but for you and me, our families and friends," said Industrial Designer Richard Hollerith, a member of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. As he pointed out, today or tomorrow, for days or for life, anyone can be struck by a disability-from a broken leg to paralysis, from an earache to deafness, from poor eyesight to blindness, to say nothing of the debilities...
...think that subcontracting will win the war were talking last week about an ingenious new mechanical scheme to increase subcontracting. Its author is a fast-talking, high-domed, ex-filling station owner from Richmond, Va. named James S. Stanley, who has a passion for punch cards and Hollerith sorting machines. He was last heard of eight years ago as the founder of the Leisure League of America, to which he contributed suggestions for 700 ways to kill time. But his own hobby has always been work...
Once the code is set up, a prime contractor translates into it the parts of his job he wants help on. The U.S. Census Bureau's Hollerith machines take this alphabet soup and turn it into a directory. Thumbing this directory to see where his machines belong, a would-be subcontractor can then write the prime contractor (whose name is also coded) for detailed plans, make a firm bid for the work...
...Backbone of International Business Machines Corp. is the famed Hollerith electric tabulator, but I. B. M. also does a brisk business in meat grinders and sausage slicers. Last week I. B. M. reported that earnings last year were $6,597,000 against...