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    On intellectual craftsmanship (1952)
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    1. chrisaldrich 01 Oct 2022
      A career-line study of the presidents, all cabinet members,and all members of the Supreme Court. This 1 'already have onIBM cards from the constitutional period through Truman'ssecond term, but I want to expand the items used and analyze itafresh.

      Notice that it's not just notes, but data on IBM cards that he's using for research here. This sort of data analysis is much easier now, but is also of the sort detailed by Beatrice Webb in her scientific note taking.

      databases IBM cards scientific note taking

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    How the index card launched the information age
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    1. chrisaldrich 05 Aug 2022
      In 1896, Dewey formed a partnership with Herman Hollerith and the Tabulating Machine Company (TMC) to provide the punch cards used for the electro-mechanical counting system of the US government census operations. Dewey’s relationship with Hollerith is significant as TMC would be renamed International Business Machines (IBM) in 1924 and become an important force in the information age and creator of the first relational database.
      Melvil Dewey Herman Hollerith 1896 1926 IBM Tabulating Machine Company census relational databases punched cards
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