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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.HollerithHollerith - United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929)
Herman Hollerith


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Other new technologies, however, soon followed: "The cash register was patented in 1879, dictating machines and stereotypes in the 1880s, the mimeograph machine in 1890, the Hollerith machine which was used to tabulate the 1890 census, a full-listing adding machine .
Women and the paradox of economic inequality in the twentieth-century by Fader, Jamie J. / Journal of Social History
From the Hollerith card to the touch screen machines, faster speed and "absolute" secrecy have motivated voting equipment designers.
What Robert's Rules of Order can teach us about electronic voting ... by Urken, Arnie / The Humanist
To conduct population studies at Scripps, Jesse Shera worked with perforated cards and related equipment, the same equipment that Herman Hollerith had devised to cope with the volume of the 1890 census data.
Social epistemology from Jesse Shera to Steve Fuller by Zandonade, Tarcisio / Library Trends
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