Powers Accounting Machine

The Powers Accounting Machine was an information processing device developed in the early 20th century for the U.S. Census Bureau.

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 F. Pidgin's tabulators.

[2] The Census Bureau hired him as a technician in 1907 to help develop the competing tabulating machine.

[2] Powers secured a patent for his version of the tabulating machine, which allowed him to later create a business around the technology he had invented.

[7] The inventor was a member of the Machinery Club and the American Society of Mechanical Engineering through the time of his death on Tuesday, November 8, 1927, at age 57.