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Hollerith

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Hol·ler·ith  (hl-rth), Herman 1860-1929.
American inventor who created a system of recording and retrieving information on punched cards (1880) and founded the company that became IBM (1924).
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Noun1.Hollerith - United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929)Hollerith - United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929)
Herman Hollerith
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1889 Dr Herman Hollerith of New York patented an electrically-operated computer to process data.
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