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Other new technologies, however, soon followed: "The cash register was patented in 1879, dictating machines and stereotypes in the 1880s, the mimeograph machine in 1890, the Hollerith machine which was used to tabulate the 1890 census, a full-listing adding machine . From the Hollerith card to the touch screen machines, faster speed and "absolute" secrecy have motivated voting equipment designers. To conduct population studies at Scripps, Jesse Shera worked with perforated cards and related equipment, the same equipment that Herman Hollerith had devised to cope with the volume of the 1890 census data. |
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