Title

Tabulating machines in the punch room in a Sheffield Factory office, 1963. Artist: Michael Walters

Caption

Tabulating machines in the punch room in a Sheffield factory office, South Yorkshire, 1963. scene in the offices of the Edgar Allen Steel Company. The machines would punch out the numerical data which was then fed through to the Hollerith Machine. Herman Hollerith was born in 1860 of German parentage and developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards in order to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the founder of the company that became IBM and the early machines were used as early as 1890 for the US census.

Date

2009

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Worldwide Photography

Reference

HRM19D71_496

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,4Mb (1,3Mb) / 15,8in x 12,4in / 4752 x 3709 (300dpi)

Keywords

England female women woman people working computer work office job technology sitting industry worker country desk science card occupation British English row memory lighting industrial machine machinery location century Britain profession addition maths mathematics furniture company lady concept arithmetic seated B&W office equipment south yorkshire office worker MONOCHROME metaphor computing iron and steel industry fluorescent tube Sixties Sheffield punch card black & white black and white B W tabulator desk job 1960s 20th century workers electric lighting punched card TGN photograph Paul Walters Worldwide Photography Ltd. Michael Walters Edgar Allen and Company Herman Hollerith Hollerith Dr Herman Walters Michael Herman Hollerith photograph