Note sur l'utilisation rationnelle des machines à statistique

Bolle, Georges. Note sur l'utilisation rationnelle des machines à statistique. Offprint from Revue générale des chemins de fer (March 1929). 27pp. 307 x 217 mm. Original printed wrappers, minor stains on front wrapper. Moderate toning, but very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author on the verso of the front wrapper: "A M. Portal avec mon bien amical souvenir G. Bolle 1/4/29."

First Edition, Offprint Issue. An early application in France of punched-card tabulating machines in railway operations. Bolle, a graduate of the École Polytechnique, was chief accounting officer of the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean Railroad and a pioneer of the use of machine data processing in railway operations. In the present paper he discussed the use of punch-card tabulating machines to analyze data relating to freight, shipping, personnel and equipment malfunction, and the use of this data in setting rates and wages.