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Herman Hollerith is widely regarded as the father of modern automatic computation. He chose the punched card as the basis for storing and processing information and he built the first punched-card tabulating and sorting machines as well as the first key punch, and he founded the company that was to become IBM.
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www.columbia.edu/acis/history/hollerith.html
www.columbia.edu/acis/history/hollerith.html
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Herman Hollerith invented and used a punched card device to help analyse the 1880 US census data.In 1896 Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company to sell his invention - the Company became part of IBM in 1924. ... Herman Hollerith - Punch Card...
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inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blhollerith.htm
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Herman Hollerith (1860-1929) ... 1860 - 1929 ... A picture of Hollerith's machine...
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www.gap-system.org/~history/Mathematicians/Hollerith.ht...
www.gap-system.org/~history/Mathematicians/Hollerith.html
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Herman Hollerith entered and won this competition. With his victory, not only did Hollerith make it possible to complete the census in a reasonable time frame, but his methods, which were used well into the 1960s, offered a foundation for the future collection of all types of data1.
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www.history.rochester.edu/steam/hollerith/
www.history.rochester.edu/steam/hollerith/
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Fascinating facts about Herman Hollerith inventor of an early computer, the punch card machine in 1890. ... Herman Hollerith, American inventor, born in Buffalo, New York, and educated at Columbia University, who devised a system of encoding data on cards through a series of punched holes. This system proved useful...
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www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/hollerith.htm
www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/hollerith.htm
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Herman Hollerith invented and developed a punch-card tabulation machine system that revolutionized statistical computation. Hollerith began working on the tabulating system during his days at MIT, filing for the first patent in 1884. He developed a hand-fed 'press' that sensed the holes in punched cards;
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www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/80.html
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Herman Hollerith invented and developed a punch-card tabulation machine system that revolutionized statistical computation. ... portrait of Herman Hollerith...
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museum.nist.gov/panels/conveyor/hollerithbio.htm
museum.nist.gov/panels/conveyor/hollerithbio.htm
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Computing People in History: Herman Hollerit ... Beginnings and Education; Herman Hollerith's parents immigrated, in 1848, to the United States from Germany fleeing political disturbances there. ... Hollerith was surely a bright child but struggled in his early schooling with difficulties learning spelling. There ensued a...
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