Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for …

Hollerith applied for his first patent in 1884, outlining a proposed method to store data using holes punched into strips of paper, similar to how player pianos read thick rolls of paper full of …

Herman Hollerith (born February 29, 1860, Buffalo, New York, U.S.—died November 17, 1929, Washington, D.C.) was an American inventor of a tabulating machine that was an important …

Herman Hollerith did undergraduate work at the School of Mines of Columbia University in New York. In 1879 he began work the U.S. Census Office, and soon was appointed a special agent …

Hollerith's designs dominated the computing landscape for almost 100 years. After receiving his Engineer of Mines (EM) degree at age 19, Hollerith worked on the 1880 US census, a …

Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for …

Mar 29, 2024 · But the origins of automatic data processing go back over 130 years to the pioneering work of one man: Herman Hollerith. An eccentric genius and shrewd businessman, …

This punch card system laid the foundation for more advances in number calculations, including those developed by Herman Hollerith for the 1880 U.S. census. Hollerith went on to improve …

Born February 20, 1860, Buffalo, N. Y; died November 17, 1929, Washington, D. C.; inventor of the punched card which bears his name and the associated machinery for use in the 1890 US …

Herman Hollerith is the father of modern machine data processing. His invention of the punched card machine marked the beginning of the automatic data processing age. Whereas punched …