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Calculating machine designed by French mathematician Blaise Pascal in 1642 when he was nineteen years old. It could perform addition and subtraction
 
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Calculating machine designed by French mathematician Blaise Pascal in 1642 when he was nineteen years old. It could perform addition and subtraction

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Calculating machine designed by French mathematician Blaise Pascal in 1642 when he was nineteen years old. It could perform addition and subtraction

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Small part of Babbage's mechanical calculating engine his Difference Engine an invention to which he dedicated his life. While limited by the technology of his time he did developed many of the the principles of modern computers including information storage
 
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Small part of Babbage's mechanical calculating engine his Difference Engine an invention to which he dedicated his life. While limited by the technology of his time he did developed many of the the principles of modern computers including information storage

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Small part of Babbage's mechanical calculating engine his Difference Engine an invention to which he dedicated his life. While limited by the technology of his time he did developed many of the the principles of modern computers including information storage

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The new Social Security Administration was challenged with handling an unprecedented amount of information to track citizens' wage records and taxes paid. A government worker uses a state of the art mechanical tabulator to print a list Social Security account numbers. c. 1937
 
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The new Social Security Administration was challenged with handling an unprecedented amount of information to track citizens' wage records and taxes paid. A government worker uses a state of the art mechanical tabulator to print a list Social Security account numbers. c. 1937

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The new Social Security Administration was challenged with handling an unprecedented amount of information to track citizens' wage records and taxes paid. A government worker uses a state of the art mechanical tabulator to print a list Social Security account numbers. c. 1937

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Women working with punch cards at an early tabulating machine at the U.S. Census Bureau, c. 1908
 
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Women working with punch cards at an early tabulating machine at the U.S. Census Bureau, c. 1908

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Women working with punch cards at an early tabulating machine at the U.S. Census Bureau, c. 1908

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Mechanisms of Gottfried Leibniz's calculator the most advanced of its time which perform all four basic arithmetic functions addition subtraction multiplication and division . 1725
 
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Mechanisms of Gottfried Leibniz's calculator the most advanced of its time which perform all four basic arithmetic functions addition subtraction multiplication and division . 1725

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Mechanisms of Gottfried Leibniz's calculator the most advanced of its time which perform all four basic arithmetic functions addition subtraction multiplication and division . 1725

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Charles Babbage 1792-1871 English mathematician and engineer who build the most advanced mechanical calculation device of his time. His mechanical computer anticipated the development of 20th century information technology. 1871
 
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Charles Babbage 1792-1871 English mathematician and engineer who build the most advanced mechanical calculation device of his time. His mechanical computer anticipated the development of 20th century information technology. 1871

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Charles Babbage 1792-1871 English mathematician and engineer who build the most advanced mechanical calculation device of his time. His mechanical computer anticipated the development of 20th century information technology. 1871

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Man working with punch cards in an early tabulating machine at the U.S. Census Bureau, c. 1908
 
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Man working with punch cards in an early tabulating machine at the U.S. Census Bureau, c. 1908

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Man working with punch cards in an early tabulating machine at the U.S. Census Bureau, c. 1908

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Mid-century state of the art IBM computers with punch-cards and sorters. IBM (International Business Machines) lead the development of tabulators, or mechanical computers for business use. c. 1950
 
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Mid-century state of the art IBM computers with punch-cards and sorters. IBM (International Business Machines) lead the development of tabulators, or mechanical computers for business use. c. 1950

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Mid-century state of the art IBM computers with punch-cards and sorters. IBM (International Business Machines) lead the development of tabulators, or mechanical computers for business use. c. 1950

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Tabulating machine used in the 1920 United States census. It was a predecessor of electronic computers, and worked by mechanically reading punch cards with coded information
 
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Tabulating machine used in the 1920 United States census. It was a predecessor of electronic computers, and worked by mechanically reading punch cards with coded information

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Tabulating machine used in the 1920 United States census. It was a predecessor of electronic computers, and worked by mechanically reading punch cards with coded information

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Tabulator-Printer used by the U.S. Navy Department in 1917. It was a predecessor of electronic computers, and worked by mechanically reading punch cards with coded information and printed out readable information
 
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Tabulator-Printer used by the U.S. Navy Department in 1917. It was a predecessor of electronic computers, and worked by mechanically reading punch cards with coded information and printed out readable information

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Tabulator-Printer used by the U.S. Navy Department in 1917. It was a predecessor of electronic computers, and worked by mechanically reading punch cards with coded information and printed out readable information

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Man loading punch cards into a tabulating machine used in the 1920 United States census. It was a predecessor of electronic computers, and worked by mechanically reading punch cards with coded information
 
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Man loading punch cards into a tabulating machine used in the 1920 United States census. It was a predecessor of electronic computers, and worked by mechanically reading punch cards with coded information

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Man loading punch cards into a tabulating machine used in the 1920 United States census. It was a predecessor of electronic computers, and worked by mechanically reading punch cards with coded information

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A woman operates one of 12 IBM computers in use during the 1940 Census. The units were Alphabetic Accounting Machine Equipped with Gang Summary Punch made by the International Business Machines, Inc.
 
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A woman operates one of 12 IBM computers in use during the 1940 Census. The units were Alphabetic Accounting Machine Equipped with Gang Summary Punch made by the International Business Machines, Inc.

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A woman operates one of 12 IBM computers in use during the 1940 Census. The units were Alphabetic Accounting Machine Equipped with Gang Summary Punch made by the International Business Machines, Inc.

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Young female government employee using an adding machine. c. 1935
 
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Young female government employee using an adding machine. c. 1935

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Young female government employee using an adding machine. c. 1935

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Old and new computers at the Census bureau in 1940. At left is Herman Hollerith's large 'unit tabulator,' which processes cards containing census information at the rate of 4800 statistics per minute. The new smaller machine (at right) achieved the rate of 8700 per minute
 
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Old and new computers at the Census bureau in 1940. At left is Herman Hollerith's large 'unit tabulator,' which processes cards containing census information at the rate of 4800 statistics per minute. The new smaller machine (at right) achieved the rate of 8700 per minute

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Old and new computers at the Census bureau in 1940. At left is Herman Hollerith's large 'unit tabulator,' which processes cards containing census information at the rate of 4800 statistics per minute. The new smaller machine (at right) achieved the rate of 8700 per minute

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Clerks at the Farm Credit Administration working on Civilian Resource Conservation CCC Program reports. 1937
 
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Clerks at the Farm Credit Administration working on Civilian Resource Conservation CCC Program reports. 1937

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Clerks at the Farm Credit Administration working on Civilian Resource Conservation CCC Program reports. 1937

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Social Security Administration clerk punching tabulator operation cards, with each hole representing a letter or a numbers. The cards will be fed into the mechanical tabulator, where sensitive steel fingers read the punches, and electrical impulses will create a printed sheet of statistic information. c. 1938
 
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Social Security Administration clerk punching tabulator operation cards, with each hole representing a letter or a numbers. The cards will be fed into the mechanical tabulator, where sensitive steel fingers read the punches, and electrical impulses will create a printed sheet of statistic information. c. 1938

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Social Security Administration clerk punching tabulator operation cards, with each hole representing a letter or a numbers. The cards will be fed into the mechanical tabulator, where sensitive steel fingers read the punches, and electrical impulses will create a printed sheet of statistic information. c. 1938

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Social Security Administration clerks seated at massive tabulating machines, actually early computers, used to manage the individual records of millions of Americans in the Social Security system. c. 1940
 
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Social Security Administration clerks seated at massive tabulating machines, actually early computers, used to manage the individual records of millions of Americans in the Social Security system. c. 1940

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Social Security Administration clerks seated at massive tabulating machines, actually early computers, used to manage the individual records of millions of Americans in the Social Security system. c. 1940

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The 1990 FIFA World Cup Final: Germany - Argentina (photo)
 
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The 1990 FIFA World Cup Final: Germany celebrates (photo)
 
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