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Dec 9, 2011 · Herman Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine. On this day in 1888, the groundbreaking tabulator machine was installed in a government office for the first time. Joseph Stromberg. December 9, 2011....
Herman Hollerith. Herman Hollerith (1860-1929): Hollerith worked briefly for the Census Office in the run-up to the 1880 census. This experience, along with some advice from mentor John Shaw Billings, convinced him that the Census Office desperately needed a better way to tabulate census data than hand counting.
Mar 27, 2019 · Herman Hollerith. In 1881, Herman Hollerith began designing a machine to tabulate census data more efficiently than by traditional hand methods. The U.S. Census Bureau had taken eight years to complete the 1880 census, and it was feared that the 1890 census would take even longer.
May 11, 2018 · (1860-1929) Engineer and Inventor. Overview. Herman Hollerith made a major contribution to the development of the modern digital computer with his tabulating machine. An early model of his invention was first used in 1890 to tabulate medical statistics gathered by the United States Army.
Sep 5, 2023 · Herman Hollerith. Translations ( see below for credits): Herman Hollerith (1860-1929), Columbia University School of Mines EM 1879, Columbia University PhD 1890. Photo: IBM. Herman Hollerith is widely regarded as the father of modern automatic computation.
Herman Hollerith. Punch Card Tabulator. U.S. Patent Nos. 395,781; 395,782; 395,783. Inducted in 1990. Born Feb. 29, 1860 - Died Nov. 17, 1929. Herman Hollerith invented and developed a punch-card tabulation machine system that revolutionized statistical computation.
Inventor. School of Mines 1879, PhD 1890. Hollerith has been called the world's first statistical engineer and the father of modern information processing. He invented punched cards to record data and a tabulating machine and sorter to process the results electronically.
