COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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23 years
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14 weeks
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7 years
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3 years
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Detailed explanation-1: -The processing of the 1880 census data took so long (eight years) that the Census Bureau contracted Herman Hollerith to design and build a tabulating machine to be used for the next census.
Detailed explanation-2: -The census began on Monday, August 2, 1790, and was finished within 9 months, under the rules and directions established in an Act of Congress approved March 1, 1790 ( “An Act providing for the enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States, ‘’ 1 Statutes at Large 101).
Detailed explanation-3: -Population Censuses are generally conducted every 10 years and have as primary objective the total enumeration of the population of a country to provide essential information on their spatial distribution, age and sex structure, and other key social and economic characteristics.