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It all began with Herman Hollerith and his punched card, which was the main user interface to computers for the first few decades that computers existed. The author's brief summation of the march of computing history includes Charles Babbage, the 19th-century astronomer and economist who sought to automate mathematics, just as the machines of the Industrial Age were converting factories to mass production; Herman Hollerith, an engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who built a punch-card tabulator for the national census in 1890; and Vannevar Bush, also of M. |
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Herman Hollerith - United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929)