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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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One use of the Hollerith machine was to compile data on German Jews - who they were and where they lived.
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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 .
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Information collected by the Hollerith machines manufactured by DEHOMAG was submitted to police stations and local statistical and registry offices.
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