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| | Herman Hollerith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was an American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from thousands and millions of data. | | | This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is licensed under the GFDL. | | | The key idea (due to Billings), however, was that all personal data could be coded numerically. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Herman Hollerith |
| | Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 â“ November 17, 1929) was an American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from thousands and millions of data. | | | tabulating machine constructed by Hollerith The tabulating machine was a machine designed to assist in tabulations. | | | Statistics is a broad mathematical discipline which studies ways to collect, summarize and draw conclusions from data. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Herman-Hollerith
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| | Inventor Herman Hollerith |
| | On, January 8, 1889 Dr. Herman Hollerith received a patent for his tabulating machine, one of the forerunners to modern computers. | | | Fascinating facts about Herman Hollerith inventor of an early computer, the punch card machine in 1890. | | | This book covers major players in the development of the computer, from Herman Hollerith, the inventor of punch cards, through the inventors of ENIAC and UNIVAC, as well as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Marc Andreessen of Netscape. |
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http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/hollerith.htm
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| | School of Information Science - Hall of Fame |
| | Herman Hollerith improved the efficiency and accuracy of data processing by inventing a tabulating machine which was the first to used punched cards. | | | This machine laid the foundation for the development of the electronic computer. | | | In 1911, the Tabulating Machine Company merged with another to become the Computer Tabulating Recording Company. |
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http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~mbsclass/hall_of_fame/hollerith.html
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| | History of Computers |
| | Hollerith's Tabulating Machine Company became the Computer Tabulating Recording Company in 1911 but soon the market for counting machines was lost. | | | The exact origin of the idea of the Tabulating machine that was created by Herman Hollerith is not known. | | | In 1882, Herman was teaching mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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http://techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us/fall022/HOLLERITH.HTM
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| | MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Herman Hollerith |
| | American inventor Herman Hollerith developed the punch card system of recording data, an important step in the development of computers. | | | In 1896 he organized the Tabulating Machine Corporation, which became the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in 1924. |
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| | Although Hollerith made a very significant contribution to the development of the modern electronic computer with his punched card technology not all his ideas were similar great successes. | | | This appointment was very significant because it was in solving the problems of analysing the large amounts of data generated by the 1880 US census that Hollerith was led to look for ways of manipulating data mechanically. | | | He developed the early work he had done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on methods to convert the information on punched cards into electrical impulses. |
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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hollerith.html
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| | From the perspective on computer history, > the important dates are 1890 (for the introduction of the Hollerith > machine, leading to IBM), and 1950 (for the use of the Univac). | | | The bottom line is that this is great to have in terms of telling the story of the history of computers. | | | Subject: Re: Univac 1 SN 001 plaque > George: > > I'm chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Computer History Museum, > and I echo John Toole's and Grant Saviers' interest in collaborating > with you, especially insofar as the history of the Census Bureau > overlaps the history of computing. |
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| | Herman Hollerith -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer! |
| | In 1896 he founded the Tabulating Machine Co., which later became IBM Corp. Hollerith's electromechanical sensing and punching devices were forerunners of the input/output units of later computers. | | | Historical information on punch cards, developed by Herman Hollerith in the 1890s and used for data processing into the 1970s. | | | Exhibit featuring the punched card and the page from Railroad Gazette, April 19, 1895, reporting the invention of the tabulating machine that was an important precursor of the electronic computer, developed by Herman Hollerith, presented by the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Also provides a historical background. |
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http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9367227
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| | Hollerith, Herman Summary - Hollerith, Herman Information |
| | For independent studies in developing Hollerith's tabulating system, the Columbia School of Mines waived its usual requirements and awarded Hollerith a doctor of philosophy degree in 1890. | | | Although Hollerith left Washington, D.C., in 1882 to become an instructor of mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he never abandoned the concept of automated tabulation. | | | Goldstine, Herman H. The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann. |
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| | Tech Tidbit -- April 22, 2002 |
| | Punch cards, developed by Herman Hollerith of Buffalo, New York, to tabulate the 1890 U.S. Census, played a major role in the development of computer technology and the growth of its role in society. | | | They were the principal means of inputting data into a computer in the days of the large mainframe (1950s and 1960s) when I first began to use these machines as an undergraduate at MIT. | | | Punching a set of these cards (properly known as Hollerith cards, but more commonly called IBM cards) was how one prepared data for computer analysis. |
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| | Hollerith would then build a machine not unlike a player piano--a machine that would "read" census data using electric probes that could sense holes in the cards. | | | The machine allowed the user to input census data using punch cards, stored the census data, processed the incoming data to arrive at the required subtotals and grand total, and output the data on a series of gauges. | | | In 1890, Hollerith succeeded in producing the machine that Babbage and Lovelace dreamed up more than half a century earlier. |
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| | Hollerith 2 |
| | Hollerith finally succeeded in building a machine that would process data. | | | Hollerith found a place where he could work on his punched card system for processing demographic data? | | | Hollerith thought about this problem for a long time. |
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http://www.rit.edu/~japnce/payne/computers/questions/hollerith2Q.html
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| | Herman Hollerith - a Whatis.com definition |
| | Born in 1860 in Buffalo, NY, Herman Hollerith was the creator of the Hollerith Electric Tabulating System, the ancestor to computers as we know them today. | | | In 1911, Hollerith's Tabulating Machine Company merged with another machine manufacturer to form Computer Tabulating Recording Company. | | | As a primary form of data input for computers, the punch card existed well into the early 1970s before the interactive display terminal began its ascendance. |
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| | Herman Hollerith Tabulating Machine |
| | Herman Hollerith is widely regarded as the father of modern automatic computation. | | | Hollerith's designs dominated the computing landscape for almost 100 years. | | | Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and its Technology |
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http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/hollerith.html
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| | Herman Hollerith |
| | Working on the 1880 census, Hollerith saw scores of people poring over reams of statistical data and thought, “there must be a more efficient method.” As he worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the U.S. Patent Office (1884–90), he developed a machine for tabulating data coded onto punch cards. | | | Buffalo, N.Y. When children ask their parents, “Where did computers come from?” one answer might be, “From the entrepreneurial vision that underlies the strength of the American economy.&; Like any other entrepreneur, Hollerith saw a need and made a product to meet that need, and in so doing created one of the first computers. | | | The First Punched Card Tabulator The U.S. census of 1890 was counted on tabulating machines designed by Herman H. (Computer Desktop Encyclopedia) |
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| | Herman Hollerith's Tabulating Machines |
| | solving the census problem, Hollerith's machines proved themselves to be extremely useful for a wide variety of statistical applications, and some of the techniques they used were to be significant in the development of the digital computer. | | | to this problem was developed during the 1880s by an American inventor called Herman Hollerith, whose idea it was to use Jacquard's punched cards to represent the census data, and to then read and collate this data using an automatic machine. | | | These notes are abstracted from the book Bebop BYTES Back |
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| | It is interesting that he is not more well remembered, because he was one of the first to realize the importance of machine-assisted computing and tabulation and he created the first punch card computer in order to make use of these concepts. | | | At first, instead of punch cards, he tried magnetic tape, but that didn’t work so well because the data could only be accessed sequentially. | | | ÐÏࡱá > þÿ : = þÿÿÿ 9 ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿì¥Á q ¿ ® bjbjt+t+ Î A A ® ÿÿ ÿÿ ÿÿ ] 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 D Ð Ð Ð Ð Ð Ü Ð a þ ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü & ( ( ( ( ( ( $ _ ô S Ð L 4 ü ü ü ü ü L Ê 4 4 ü ü ü Ê Ê Ê ü F 4 ü 4 ü & x @ 4 4 4 4 ü & Ê \ Ê & 4 4 & ü ð kYª ¿Ð Ð B & Herman Hollerith — Creator of the Punch Card Input System Kim Schuttenberg Zach Wheeler Abstract Herman Hollerith is one of the first people to realize the importance of machine-assisted computations and tabulations. |
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| | 1890 HERMAN HOLLERITH |
| | The electronic tabulating machines designed by Hollerith were able to read the information on the cards and process it electronically. | | | Hollerith's tabulating machines were the forerunners of today's data processing industry. | | | The code was called Hollerith code and is still in use today. |
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http://www.cis.southalabama.edu/faculty/daigle/project1/90herm.htm
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| | History of Computing Science: Herman Hollerith |
| | A step toward automated computation was the introduction of punched cards, which were first successfully used in connection with computing in 1890 by Herman Hollerith working for the U.S. Census Bureau. | | | As a result of his invention, reading errors were consequently greatly reduced, work flow was increased, and, more important, stacks of punched cards could be used as an accessible memory store of almost unlimited capacity; furthermore, different problems could be stored on different batches of cards and worked on as needed. | | | He developed a device which could automatically read census information which had been punched onto card. |
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| | Computer Museum of America |
| | His machines became the nucleus of today's computing industry. | | | In 1911, it merged with others to form the Computing, Tabulating and Recording Company. | | | The Hollerith tabulating system was the first to make practical use of the punched card in data processing. |
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| | Herman Hollerith |
| | Hollerith is credited with initiating the growth of the computer industry and is the founder of a company now called ibm. | | | Hoyle, M. Hollerith & Tabulating Machine [WWW document]. | | | Herman Hollerith was the American inventor of a punch-card tabulating machine system that revolutionized the tabulating process of the United States Census Bureau in 1880. |
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http://www.wellesley.edu/CS/courses/CS110/History/HermanHollerith.html
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| | High Tech in the '90s - The 1890 Census |
| | The Personal Computer on your desk right now can trace its pedigree from IBM's personal computer development efforts in the early 1980s all the way back to Herman Hollerith's automation of the 1890 census. | | | Plate, punch card, and instructions for Herman Hollerith's Electric Sorting and Tabulating Machine, ca. | | | Herman Hollerith didn't just invent a few machines to automate the census counting process, he developed an entire integrated system. |
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| | PUNCHED RAILROAD TICKETS WERE THE FORERUNNERS OF COMPUTERS |
| | Hollerith would work out a means to compile the information on such 'punch photographs' on his early computers." | | | In the 1890's, voting machines also began to use the technology. | | | But the vital leap was the idea this was a photograph of several simple kinds of information—a digital photograph. |
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| | The ghost of Herman Hollerith? |
| | The demonstration is particularly interesting in that it takes a cue from a process that has roots in IBM history, the 110-year old "punch-card" technology developed originally by Herman Hollerith. | | | The computer giant just announced that they have developed an experimental technology, which permits the storage of a trillion bits per square inch -- 20 times higher than the densest magnetic storage available today. | | | In addition, according to the company, this approach to data storage is re-writable and can be operated at lower power. |
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| | IBM Tabulators and Accounting Machines |
| | The Tabulator was invented by IBM's founder, Herman Hollerith (Columbia University EM 1879 PhD 1890), for the 1890 US Census, and was an essential part of the computing and business scene for nearly a century. | | | Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and its Technology | | | Its basic function is to count and/or add from punched cards and then produce results or reports on dials (early models) or visible counters, or print them on paper, and/or send them to a separate card punch or other device so they can be used in subsequent calculations. |
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| | History of the Internet: Prehistory of the Net (Chapter 1 Excerpt) |
| | An electromechanical machine, of his design, could tabulate the information from the card automatically. | | | History of the Internet: Prehistory of the Net (Chapter 1 Excerpt) | | | Illustration of a man operating Hollerith's Tabulating Machine, which was used to calculate the 1890 Census (CORBIS/Bettmann). |
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| | Herman Hollerith's Self-Propelled Stoat Catcher |
| | After considering various possible uses, Herman became interested in the idea of creating a self-controlled roving machine, capable of operating independently from external instructions. | | | The machine was to be controlled by the same punched-card system as the Tabulation Machine. | | | After the success of his Tabulating Machine in the reading and counting of the 1890 United States Census, Herman Hollerith began considering other uses for his tabulation machine and the punched-card system. |
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| | Hollerith’s tabulating machine won, computing the 1890 census in just six weeks. | | | He also developed a machine called the Hollerith Electrical Tabulating System, which could read data on punched cards and process it electronically. | | | Soon, his tabulating machines were used for censuses of other countries as well. |
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| | It was at MIT that he began to develop a solution to the Census problem. | | | Hollerith called his system the Hollerith Electric Tabulating System. | | | Hollerith submitted his work on the tabulating machine for a doctoral degree at the Columbia School of Mines and was awarded the degree in 1890. |
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| | With his invention Hollerith allowed for the creation of one of the most dominant corporations of the computer age and secured his place in history as the father of information processing. | | | 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 data | | | The Census Bureau's solution was to have a competition to find a new method by which the census could be tabulated. |
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| | References for Hollerith |
| | F W Kistermann, The invention and development of the Hollerith punched card : in commemoration of the 130th anniversary of the birth of Herman Hollerith and for the 100th anniversary of large scale data processing, Annals of the history of computing 13 (1991), 245-259. | | | G D Austrian, Herman Hollerith : forgotten giant of information processing (New York, 1982). | | | A G Debus (ed.), Herman Hollerith, World's Who's Who in Science (1968). |
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| | As to the question of whether any tabulating machines were used prior to 1890, the sources are conflicting. | | | Herman Hollerith, a former Bureau employee, developed an electrical enumerating machine with its punch cards for the 1890 Census." http://cronkite.pp.asu.edu/census/gaoreport.htm Hollerith was not the only one with tabulating machines: "Hollerith's system was first tested on tabulating mortality statistics in Baltimore, New Jersey in 1887 and again in New York City. | | | Hollerith wouldn't have been a player in 1850, but perhaps the story goes back to one of these other companies, since in a way they also were precursors of IBM. |
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| | Herman Hollerith Papers (Library of Congress) |
| | Correspondence concerning the financial arrangement of the merger of the Tabulating Machine Co. into the Computing- Tabulating-Recording Co. is filed separately at the end. | | | Patents by Hollerith and others, printed matter, business papers, blueprints and drawings, one Hollerith machine punch plate, newspaper clippings, and two scrapbooks. | | | The Miscellany series contains a chronological file of patents by Hollerith and others relating to his inventions. |
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| | John Shaw Billings, a high official for the buro and Hollerith's future father in law, suggested to process all counting by punched cards, and Hollerith started to work through the 80's and developed a system just for that puirpose. | | | But he was satisfied with the idea that Hollerith followed up on the idea. | | | In a census office speed contest, his statistical tabulator bested several rivals to win the 1890 census contract. |
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| | Did you know that Herman Hollerith adapted the process of using cards to control an automated textile loom, to operate a computer. | | | Have an opinion on this product?Disagree with the review? |
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| | In only a few days the was assured of the finances and began his work. | | | Although he was heavily involved in teaching and work with his students he found time to work on his census machine. | | | "In the fall of 1882, Hollerith left Washington to become an instructor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."(Austrian) Soon after though he ended up going back to Colombia College where he got his degree. |
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| | Hollerith’s device became so successful, he started his own firm that evolved into International Business Machines, or the IBM of today. | | | While he was lecturing at MIT, Hollerith developed a simple prototype using cards punched with a tram conductor’s hole punch to represent the data linked with a particular individual. | | | So in this way, Herman Hollerith solved the dilemma of census taking in 1890. |
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| | Hollerith's Punched Cards |
| | These notes are abstracted from the book Bebop BYTES Back | | | By the early 1900s, Hollerith's cards supported 45 columns, where each column could be used to represent a single character or data value. | | | practical use of punched cards for data processing is credited to the American inventor Herman Hollerith, who decided to use Jacquard's punched cards to represent the data gathered for the American census of 1890, and to read and collate this data using an automatic machine. |
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| | Herman Hollerith: bio and encyclopedia article |
| | In 1896, Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company (additional info and facts about Tabulating Machine Company) to exploit his invention and in 1924 his firm became part of IBM (additional info and facts about IBM). | | | This evolved in 1928 into a punched card (A card on which data can be recorded in the form of punched holes) system that stored data in 80 columns. | | | On January 8, 1889, Hollerith received a patent (An official document granting a right or privilege) for his electric tabulating machine (additional info and facts about tabulating machine). |
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| | Herman Hollerith Biography / Biography of Herman Hollerith Main Biography |
| | Herman Hollerith (1860-1929) was the inventor of the punched card tabulating machineÄthe precursor of the modern computerÄand one of the founders of modern information processing. | | | His machine was used to gather information for the 1890 census more efficiently. | | | Hollerith was also required to visit local industries, such as metallurgical and machine shops, in or |
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| | High-Tech Dictionary Definition |
| | An American inventor (1860-1929).He invented the punched card and the Hollerith machine for tabulation.His machine was used for the U.S.Census of 1890.He formed the Tabulating Machine Company in 1896.In 1911, it merged with several other companies and became the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, precursor to IBM. |
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| | Hollerith Tabulating machine 1889 |
| | As early as 1884, Herman Hollerith, an engineer from Columbia University had been toying with machines -- both electrical and pneumatic -- that could compile statistical information. | | | Babbage had planned to program his Engine with cards, but Hollerith turned the small piece of cardboard into a key to wide-scale data processing. | | | The Hollerith Electrical Tabulating System was the overwhelming winner. |
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| | 1890 &; Hollerith's vision for a tabulating machine was inspired by a train conductor punching a train ticket. |
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| | IBM Archives: 1886 |
| | He would receive the first patents for his Electric Tabulating Machine in 1889. | | | Hollerith will later form one of IBM's predecessor companies. | | | Dr. Herman Hollerith conducts the first practical test of his tabulating system in recording and tabulating vital statistics for the Baltimore (Maryland) Department of Health. |
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