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10 Cards in this Set
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Punched Cards
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Paper Cards with punched holes in them that represent data.
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Jacquard Loom
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An automatic loom created in 1801 that used a roll of punched paper
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Herman Hollerith
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Creator of the Hollerith Electric Tabulating Machine for 1890 census
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Hollerith Electric Tabulating Machine
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Machine that counted cards by the punched holes in them
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Pantograph
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An early manual machine used to punch the cards before keypunches were created
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Social Security Act
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Gave retirement benefits to over 30 million Americans
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Type 77 Collator
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Used for the Social Security Agency. Could sort two stacks of cards into one stack.
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Type 31 Alphabetical Duplicating Punch
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An early keypunch with a keyboard with letters and numbers
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IBM 405 Alphabetic Accounting Machine
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A sorting machine that could sort 150 cards per minute. It was the first IBM machine to print all of the letters and numbers.
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Atlas of the British Flora
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An extensive census that recorded the flora and fauna in Great Britain. Punch cards were used to make it.
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