Accountant - The enumeration division 1924
by Mike Savad
Title
Accountant - The enumeration division 1924
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo 1924, Nov 24
Original Title: Bonus Bureau, Computing Division
Location: Washington, DC
This is what you call a multi-processor computer. In actual terms they are Arithmometer's, and this is the computing section. These machines are electric, or parts of it are. It creates a spreadsheet of sorts.
The operator inputs the data, either by hand or punch card. And the machine does the rest. The computations often take as long as 2 minutes to complete.
And they were as noisy as they appear to be. I don't know if it was deafening or not, but I would imagine it would be quite a bit louder than today's computer or calculator.
Makes you wonder what people will think of our modern offices a 100 years from now.
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