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calculators for pure and applied science, the latest of which is the huge IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator so recently in the news when it was used in the preparation of the mathematical equivalent of a slow-motion picture of the splitting of the atom, completing more than 12 million calculating operations to obtain the step-by-step description of the process by which the uranium nucleus divides into smaller parts with an immense energy release.
The application of electronics to calculating machines makes available more information without the heavy amount of painstaking calculations heretofore required. In fact, the application of electronics to business machines has progressed to such an extent that such machines are coming off the assembly line at the rate of forty a month at the Poughkeepsie, New York, plant of International Business Machines Corporation for almost a year.
The application of electronics to the 1950 Census will insure its being done in the time allotted--and done correctly. And just as periodic inventories and current operating statements are the practice in any successful business, so our country's increasingly complex activities and inter-relationships must be inventoried and evaluated. Measuring the economic and social changes of the Nation is the present-day job of the Census Bureau. What started out in 1790 as a relatively simple population count has grown into what really is the world's biggest continuous statistical operation. And just as American ingenuity built our country, so has American ingenuity given our country tools to measure that growth--tools like the IBM Electronic Statistical Machine--the "work-horse" of the 1950 Census.
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