Graduate Record Examination Punch Cards

Description:

The Carnegie Foundation, and later the Educational Testing Service, used several forms of punched card in compiling and reporting information on the tests it administered. Three types are included here. All relate to Graduate Record Examination Individual Report Cards. One has the number IBM 138707 (four examples), one IBM 140086 (eleven examples), and another IBM 140088 (three examples). One card is punched.

The cards were produced under U.S. Patent 1,772.492, taken out by Clair D. Lake in 1930 and assigned to IBM. The Graduate Record Examination was first administered in 1937 and kept the New York City address shown on the cards through at least 1951.

Date Made: ca 1950

Maker: IBM

Location: Currently not on view

Subject: Mathematics

Subject:

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Mathematics, Computers & Business Machines, Punch Cards

Exhibition:

Exhibition Location:

Credit Line: Gift of Milton Schwartzbart

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1995.3080.03Nonaccession Number: 1995.3080Catalog Number: 1995.3080.03

Object Name: punch cards, group of

Physical Description: paper (overall material)Measurements: overall: .5 cm x 19 cm x 8.2 cm; 3/16 in x 7 15/32 in x 3 7/32 in

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-14d3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_690157

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