Editing Powers Accounting Machine (section)

===Census Bureau {{anchor|History}}===
In 1890, the government began leasing tabulating machines from [[Herman Hollerith]]'s [[Tabulating Machine Company]], to more efficiently, expansively, and accurately produce the national census. In 1900, Hollerith raised the lease pricing. This led the newly formed U.S. Census Bureau to seek other suppliers under its new director, Simon North, in 1903. North returned most of Hollerith's machines, and the Census Bureau began using [[Charles Felton Pidgin|Charles F. Pidgin]]'s tabulators. These machines proved too slow, so the Bureau undertook to develop its own machine for the 1910 census.<ref name="early-machines" /> North secured a $40,000 appropriation for the project.<ref name="Georgia" />