Predecessors of hollerith

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  Predecessors of hollerith

Joseph marie jacquard

Joseph Marie Jacquard (Jacquard, JM) (1752–1834), son of the Lyon weaver, invented the loom since 1790. In 1804, I drove my car to Paris, where the Vaucanson machines (de Vaukanson) (1709-1782) guided it to the final machine design, carried out in 1808. Napoleon Bonaparte granted Jacquard the right to charge a premium of 50 francs from each machine tool in force in France. In 1812, 18,000 Jacquard machines operated in France [Brokgauz-Efron, vol.17, p.551].
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Jacquard machine punch cards

Jacquard machine punch cards
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Didier Petit & Co

In these machines, holes in metal plates were used to define the pattern on the fabric. The best achievement was a black and white self-portrait. The portrait required 24,000 cards. He was woven in Lyon in 1838 by Didier Petit & Co. The basis for him was the painting by the artist Claude Bonneford, while the director of the city school of fine arts. Currently, there are several portrait originals, one of which is in the Museum of Science and Technology in London [Essinger 2004, c.5].
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Jacquard machine

The Jacquard loom belongs to those inventions that turned the lives of many people, leaving them without work and livelihood, which led to the uprising of Lyon weavers.
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First programmers

The first programmers. Preparation of cards for the Jacquard machine
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Punch cards

Punch cards were also used in the Charles Babbage analytical machine. Small cards had a size of 13 * 5.5 cm and were managers, and large ones with a size of 18.5 * 7 cm served to store numbers [Swade 1998, p.31].
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Jukebox discs

Jukebox Discs, Leipzig, 1906 [Deutsches Museum 2005]
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Census Bureau

Hollerith’s predecessor in the use of census automation machines was Charles William Seaton (1831-1885), who was the head of the 1880 census. He invented the tabulation machine for counting the census results [Census Bureau]. The device consisted of a wooden box with two rows of rollers: eight in the top row and seven in the bottom.
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Seaton Devices

Passing through the device a continuous paper tape wound on a reel, the operator could put up eight lines at the top (each of which contained the same information, for example, age) and this allowed him to process the necessary data without spending time searching for them on a paper canvas. [Reed Green 1989, p.71].
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Tabulation machine

Fig. of Charles Seaton's Patent Tabulating Machine (127,435)

Sources:

Essinger 2004: Essinger J. Jacquard's Web: The Hand-Loom. Oxford University Press, 2004. 256 p.
Swade 1998 Swade, Doron. Charles Babbage and his Calculat ing Enges. London: Science Museum, 1998.
Deutsches Museum 2005 Exposition Deutsches Museum, Munchen, 2005
Petzold 2004 Petzold Ch. Code. M .: Microsoft Press. Russian edition, 2004.
Census Bureau Source: US Census Bureau http://vermontcivilwar.org/units/ss/cws.php
Heide 1997 Heide Lars Shaping a Technology: American Punched Card Systems 1880–1914 // IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 19, No. 4, 1997.www.computer.org
1989 Reed Green, Keith S. Reed-Green. A History of the US Census and its Data Processing. // In the World of Science, 1989, N 4. P. 70-76.
Truesdell 1965 Truesdell, Leon E. The development of the punch card tab of the census 1890-1940. Washington: Bureau of the census, 1965.
Brockhaus-Efron New Encyclopedic Dictionary. ed. Brockhaus and Efron

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