How the US census led to the first data processing company 125 years ago – and kick-started America’s computing industry

This electromechanical machine, used in the 1890 U.S. census, was the first automated data processing system. Niall Kennedy/Flickr, CC BY-NC – By David Lindsay Roberts, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Prince George’s Community College 2021 Dec 01 –  The U.S. Constitution requires that a …