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A ticket punch (or control nippers) is a hand tool for permanently marking admission tickets and similar items of paper or card stock. It makes a perforation and a corresponding chad . A ticket punch resembles a hole punch , differing in that the ticket punch has a longer jaw (or "reach") and the option of having a distinctive die shape.
The punchboard soon became increasingly similar to today's lottery tickets. Soon, the punchboard became cheap and easy to assemble, and the industry flourished. Noted gambling author John Scarne estimates that 30 million punchboards were sold in the years between 1910 and 1915.
Included below are all of the major party (Democratic-Republican, Federalist, Democratic, National Republican, Whig, and Republican) presidential tickets in U.S. history, [1] along with the nonpartisan candidacy of George Washington. Also included are independent and third party tickets that won at least ten percent of the popular or electoral ...
The company was established in July 1878 in order to acquire the patent rights to an American hand-registering ticket punch that was being used by a number of British tramway companies. By 1884 they had begun development of their own range of ticket printing machines. In 1891 they began supplying ticketing machines for London General Omnibus ...
Election workers count punch-card ballots on election night Nov. 4, 1986. At that time the county computer center was on the fourth floor of the old courthouse, the former jail when the building ...
Chads from punched cards.Each chad is about 3 mm (1 ⁄ 8 in) long. Votomatic [1] voting machines of the type used in the 2000 election in Florida The chip (chad) receiver from a UNIVAC key punch Pouring chads from a jar at the Computer History Museum Asymmetrical chad produced by a railroad ticket punch
Joe and Jill Biden. The Bidens began their official statement on Carter’s death, “Today, America and the world lost an extraordinary leader, statesman, and humanitarian.” “Over six decades ...
The Eagles are headed back to the Super Bowl for the second time in three years after dashing past the Commanders in the NFC title game.