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Contribution #65 of 365
Robert Pelham Jr.
Inventor of Census Bureau Labor-Saving Machines
1905
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How this work helped shape America
Inventor and Census Bureau employee Robert Pelham Jr. patented an automated pasting apparatus in 1905 that replaced labor-intensive manual handling of statistical slips. The Census Bureau paid him royalties for its use, and he later invented a tallying machine in 1913.