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A History of Index Cards and Tabs
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A History of Index Cards and Tabs by Chris Higgins - July 23, 2008 - 5:49 PM Productivity site 43 Folders has turned up a 2005 article from MIT's Technology Review on two of the most elemental innovations in office technology: the tab (as in a tabbed folder) and the index card. In Keeping Tabs, Ed Tenner delivers some excellent trivia: â¦In 1876, Melvil Dewey, inventor of decimal classification, helped organize a company called the Library Bureau, which sold both cards and wooden cases. An academic entrepreneur, Dewey was a perfectionist supplier. His cards were made to last, made from linen recycled from the shirt factories of Troy, NY.
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