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    Herman Hollerith (1860-1929) invented the first punched-card tabulating and sorting machines and key punch, which dominated computing for almost 100 years. He developed these tabulating machines to help process the 1890 U.S. Census more efficiently, reducing the job from 10 years to 3 months and saving taxpayers $5 million. Hollerith's company merged with others in 1911 to form IBM, which came to dominate the computing industry.

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    Herman Hollerith (1860-1929) invented the first punched-card tabulating and sorting machines and key punch, which dominated computing for almost 100 years. He developed these tabulating machines to help process the 1890 U.S. Census more efficiently, reducing the job from 10 years to 3 months and saving taxpayers $5 million. Hollerith's company merged with others in 1911 to form IBM, which came to dominate the computing industry.

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    Herman Hollerith (1860-1929) invented the first punched-card tabulating and sorting machines and key punch, which dominated computing for almost 100 years. He developed these tabulating machines to help process the 1890 U.S. Census more efficiently, reducing the job from 10 years to 3 months and saving taxpayers $5 million. Hollerith's company merged with others in 1911 to form IBM, which came to dominate the computing industry.

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    Herman Hollerith (1860-1929) invented the first punched-card tabulating and sorting machines and key punch, which dominated computing for almost 100 years. He developed these tabulating machines to help process the 1890 U.S. Census more efficiently, reducing the job from 10 years to 3 months and saving taxpayers $5 million. Hollerith's company merged with others in 1911 to form IBM, which came to dominate the computing industry.

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    Herman Hollerith

    TABULATING MACHINE
    Herman Hollerith (1860-1929)
    -father of modern automatic computation
    -founded the company that was to become
    IBM
    -his designs dominated the computing
    landscape for almost 100 years
    -he built the first punched-card tabulating and
    sorting machines as well as the first key
    punch
    Herman Hollerith (1860-1929)

    >>Birth:February 29, 1860 in Buffalo, New


    York
    >>Death:November 17, 1929
    >>entered the City College of New York in
    1875 and graduated from the
    Columbia University School of Mines with an
    "Engineer of Mines" degree in 1879
    Herman Hollerith (1860-
    1929)
    TABULATING MACHINE
    -an electrical device designed to assist in
    summarizing information and, later, accounting
    -invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was
    developed to help process data for the
    1890 U.S. Census
    TABULATING MACHINE
    -these machines reduced a ten-year job to three
    months
    -saved the 1890 taxpayers five million dollars
    -earned Hollerith an 1890 Columbia PhD
    -also used for censuses in Russia, Austria,
    Canada, France, Norway, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and
    the Philippines, and again in the US census of
    1900

    1911 - Hollerith's company merged with two


    others to form the Computing-Tabulating-
    Recording Company (CTR), which changed its
    name to International Business Machines
    Corporation (IBM) in 1924

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