Punch-Card Calculating Machinery: Applications
There are many articles in scientific journals on applications of punch-card calculating machinery to technical problems. The fields of engineering, education, indexing, mathematics, surveying, statistics, and others are all represented in the following list of sample references:
Alt, Franz L., Multiplication of Matrices, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 2, no. 13, Jan. 1946, pp. 12-13.
Bailey, C. F., and others, Punch Cards for Indexing Scientific Data, Science, vol. 104, Aug. 23, 1946, p. 181.
Bower, E. C., On Subdividing Tables, Lick Observatory Bulletin, vol. 16, no. 455, Nov. 1933, pp. 143-144.
Bower, E. C., Systematic Subdivision of Tables, Lick Observatory Bulletin, vol. 17, no. 467, Apr. 1935, pp. 65-74.
Clemence, G. M., and Paul Herget, Optimum-Interval Punched-Card Tables, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 1, no. 6, Apr. 1944, pp. 173-176.
Culley, Frank L., Use of Accounting Machines for Mass-Transformation from Geographic to Military-Grid Coordinates, Washington, D. C.: National Research Council, American Geophysical Union Transactions of 1942, part 2, pp. 190-197.
Deming, W. Edwards, and Morris H. Hansen, On Some Census Aids to Sampling, Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 38, no. 225, Sept. 1943, pp. 353-357.
Dunlap, Jack W., The Computation of Means, Standard Deviations, and Correlations by the Tabulator When the Numbers Are Both Positive and Negative, Proceedings of the Educational Research Forum, International Business Machines Corporation, Aug. 1940, pp. 16-19.
Dwyer, Paul S., The Use of Tables in the Form of Prepunched Cards, Proceedings of the Educational Research Forum, International Business Machines Corporation, Aug. 1940, pp. 125-127.
Dwyer, Paul S., Summary of Problems in the Computation of Statistical Constants with Tabulating and Sorting Machines, Proceedings of the Educational Research Forum, International Business Machines Corporation, Aug. 1940, pp. 20-28.
Dwyer, Paul S., and Alan D. Meacham, The Preparation of Correlation Tables on a Tabulator Equipped with Digit Selection, Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 32, 1937, pp. 654-662.
Dyer, H. S., Making Test Score Data Effective in the Admission and Course Placement of Harvard Freshmen, Proceedings of the Research Forum, International Business Machines Corporation, 1946, pp. 55-62.
Eckert, W. J., and Ralph F. Haupt, The Printing of Mathematical Tables, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 2, no. 17, Jan. 1947, pp. 196-202.
Feinstein, Lillian, and Martin Schwarzchild, Automatic Integration of Linear Second-Order Differential Equations by Means of Punched-Card Machines, Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 12, no. 8, Aug. 1941, pp. 405-408.
Hotelling, Harold, Some New Methods in Matrix Calculation, The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, vol. 14, no. 1, Mar. 1943, pp. 1-34.
International Business Machines Corporation, editor, and others, Proceedings of the Educational Research Forum, Endicott, N. Y.: International Business Machines Corporation, 1941.
International Business Machines Corporation, editor, and others, Proceedings of the Research Forum, Endicott, N. Y.: International Business Machines Corporation, 1946, 94 pp.
King, Gilbert W., Punched-Card Tables of the Exponential Function, Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 15, no. 12, Dec. 1944, pp. 349-350.
King, Gilbert W., and George B. Thomas, Preparation of Punched-Card Tables of Logarithms, Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 15, no. 12, Dec. 1944, p. 350.
Kormes, Mark, A Note on the Integration of Linear Second-Order Differential Equations by Means of Punched Cards, Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 14, no. 4, Apr. 1943, p. 118.
Kormes, Mark, Numerical Solution of the Boundary Value Problem for the Potential Equation by Means of Punched Cards, Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 14, no. 8, Aug. 1943, pp. 248-250.
Kormes, Mark, and Jennie P. Kormes, Numerical Solution of Initial Value Problems by Means of Punched-Card Machines, Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 16, no. 1, Jan. 1945, pp. 7-9.
Kuder, G. Frederic, Use of the IBM Scoring Machine for Rapid Computation of Tables of Intercorrelations, Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 22, no. 6, Dec. 1938, pp. 587-596.
Maxfield, D. K., Library Punched Card Procedures, Library Journal, vol. 71, no. 12, June 15, 1946, pp. 902-905...
McLaughlin, Kathleen, Adding Machines Nip AEF Epidemics, New York: New York Times, Apr. 27, 1945.
McPherson, John C., On Mechanical Tabulation of Polynomials, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Sept. 1941, pp. 317-327.
McPherson, John C., Mathematical Operations with Punched Cards, Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 37, June 1942, pp. 275-281.
Milliman, Wendell A., Mechanical Multiplication by the Use of Tabulating Machines, Transactions of the Actuarial Society of America, vol. 35, part 2, Oct. 1934, pp. 253-264; for discussion see also vol. 36, part 1, May 1935, pp. 77-84.
Royer, Elmer B., A Machine Method for Computing the Biserial Correlation Coefficient in Item Validation, Psychometrika, vol. 6, no. 1, Feb. 1941, pp. 55-59.
Whitten, C. A., Triangulation Adjustment by International Business Machines, Washington, D. C.: National Research Council, American Geophysical Union Transactions of 1943, part 1, p. 31.
The following bibliography may be obtained on request to the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory, Columbia University, 612 West 116 Street, New York 27, N. Y.:
Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory, Bibliography: The Use of IBM Machines in Scientific Research, Statistics, and Education, New York: International Business Machines Corporation (form no. 50-3813-0), Sept. 1947, 25 pp.
The organization and equipment of this laboratory are described in:
Eckert, W. J., Facilities of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory, Proceedings of the Research Forum, International Business Machines Corporation, 1946, pp. 75-80.