Difference between revisions of "History of Computers - Electronic Tabulating Machine"
From SJS Wiki
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| − | The 1890 Census posed a problem to the US government. A recent population explosion in the US drove the estimated time required to tabulate the census to 13 years- problematic because the constitution required a census to be completed every 10 years.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulator</ref> From this problem arose the first electronic computation device, the Electronic Tabulating Machine. | + | The 1890 Census posed a problem to the US government. A recent population explosion in the US drove the estimated time required to tabulate the census to 13 years- problematic because the constitution required a census to be completed every 10 years.<ref name=wiki>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulator</ref> From this problem arose the first electronic computation device, the Electronic Tabulating Machine. |
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
==Significance== | ==Significance== | ||
Revision as of 13:49, 28 September 2008
The 1890 Census posed a problem to the US government. A recent population explosion in the US drove the estimated time required to tabulate the census to 13 years- problematic because the constitution required a census to be completed every 10 years.[1] From this problem arose the first electronic computation device, the Electronic Tabulating Machine.
