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The History, Development, and Importance of Personal Computers: An entry from Gale's <i>Science and Its Times</i> by Lyndall Baker Landauer, 2001
100 years of data processing : the punchcard century (SuDoc C 3.2:D 26/10) by Frederick G. Bohme, 1991
The history of computing: A biographical portrait of the visionaries who shaped the destiny of the computer industry by Marguerite Zientara, 1981
Newcomers: Male (The Georgetowner) by Mary Mitchell, 1985

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Herman hollerith herman Hollerith is the father of modern machine data The son of German immigrants, Herman Hollerith was born on 29th February 1860 in
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Extractions: Herman Hollerith is the father of modern machine data processing. His invention of the punched card machine marked the beginning of the automatic data processing age. Whereas punched cards had previously been used to control looms, Hollerith now used them to store data. The son of German immigrants, Herman Hollerith was born on 29th February 1860 in Buffalo, New York. His interest in technology was aroused in his youth. It was important for him to study engineering so that he would be able to use his inventive drive in his work. The actual subject was of secondary importance, and he successfully completed a course of study at the School of Mines, Columbia College, New York City. He developed his idea of an electrical counting and sorting system in 1880, while working for the U.S. Bureau of the Census, where he became aware of the problems of government statistics. As an inventor and engineer, Hollerith regarded it as his task to design a machine that could evaluate the data fast. By the middle of the 1880s, he had completed his first punched card system. It was in 1889, however, that Hollerith rose to fame when he presented his invention at the World Exposition in Paris. The machines were first used in a major project for the 11th census in the USA in 1890. 62 million punched cards were evaluated by 43 Hollerith machines. Whereas it had taken eight years to evaluate the tenth census, this census was completed in just three years.
Encyklopedia: Hollerith Herman
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ImageHollerith.jpg right Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 November 17, 1929) was an American Hollerith, Herman deHerman Hollerith
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Extractions: Hollerith joined the US Census Bureau as a statistician where he used a punched card device (inspired by the father of a personal friend, Dr. Billings, and a system used by railroad conductors, in which holes punched in various places on a passenger's ticket identified the holder's gender, age group, etc.) to help analyse the US census data (starting June 1 ). This evolved in 1928 into a punched card typewriter s, professional text user interface computers, terminal s and wordprocessor systems (including printers), used 80 columns as the de facto standard for printouts and screen display (until graphical user interface s displaced text interfaces). On January 8 , Hollerith received a patent for his electric tabulating machine . In , Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company to exploit his invention and in his firm became part of IBM . The Hollerith system was used for the 1911 UK census http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/hollerith.html
Encyclopedia: U.S. Census
Herman hollerith herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 â November 17, 1929) was an American statistician who developed the Jacquards punched card idea to
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Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith. The object of my invention is to generally facilitate the Herman Hollerith (18601929) Inventor School of Mines 1879, PhD 1890
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Extractions: School of Mines 1879, PhD 1890 Hollerith has been called the world's first statistical engineer and the father of modern information processing. He invented punched cards to record data and a tabulating machine and sorter to process the results electronically. Inspiration for the cards came as Hollerith observed a tram conductor punch holes in passenger tickets. He based his tabulating machine on the Jacquard loom, which controlled woven patterns through holes made in a series of cards. The resulting punch card technology was used in computers until the late 1970s. After working on the 1880 U.S. census, which took seven years to complete, Hollerith used his invention for the 1890 census, which was completed in six weeks. The machine also earned him his Columbia PhD in 1890 and formed the basis for the Tabulating Machine Company, which he founded in 1896. A few mergers and name changes later, the company became the International Business Machines Corporation in 1924. Read more about Hollerith in the Columbia Encyclopedia.
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Read about the man who invented the tabulator Census Bureau.
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Extractions: Version for printing Herman Hollerith 's parents were immigrants to the United States from Germany in 1848 after political disturbances in that country. School was not very easy for Herman despite the fact that he was clever. Ashurst recounts [4]:- Herman is said to have been a bright and able child at school, but had an inability to learn spelling easily. His determined teacher made his life miserable to the extent that he used to avoid school whenever possible and run away when his teacher showed renewed effort to improve his spelling. The consequence of these school problems were that Herman was eventually taken away from school and he was tutored privately at home by the family's Lutheran minister. Hollerith entered the City College of New York in 1875 and he became an engineering graduate of the Columbia School of Mines in 1879, obtaining a distinction in his final examinations. His undergraduate record had been outstanding and one of his teachers, Professor W P Trowbridge, was so impressed that he asked Hollerith to become his assistant. So after graduating Hollerith became an assistant to Trowbridge, first at Columbia University but later he joined the US Census Bureau as a statistician when Trowbridge was appointed Chief Special Agent to the Census Bureau. This appointment was very significant because it was in solving the problems of analysing the large amounts of data generated by the 1880 US census that Hollerith was led to look for ways of manipulating data mechanically. The idea in fact came from Dr John Shaw Billings who Hollerith came in contact with in his work for the US Census Bureau. Hollerith wrote much later (see [6]):-
Herman Hollerith The World's First Statistical Engineer
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Extractions: Portrait of Hollerith In 1790 it took the United States' Census Bureau less than nine months to complete the first census. By 1860 the population increased almost tenfold since 1790, from 3.8 million to 31.8 million. In 1887 the Census Bureau completed the eleventh census seven years after it began. The inability to obtain census data in a reasonable time frame was a manifestation of what all data collectors had to face: With current technology the scale and complexity of some tabulations would soon be unthinkable In the case of the census, a solution was necessary. These calculations were not solely for bureaucrats or intellectual curiosity. A regular census was needed to uphold the integrity of the United States Constitution . The seats in the House of Representatives are assigned based on the census data. Due to the dynamic state of the nation's population at the time of the eleventh census the need to stay abreast on the changing demography of the country was particularly urgent. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century great changes in the composition of the population of the United States occurred. The population increased by more than twelve million between 1880 and 1890.
Herman Hollerith's Tabulating Machines
Read about the man who invented machine that made it easier to tabulate Census reports.
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Extractions: Herman Hollerith's Tabulating Machines It is often said that necessity is the mother of invention, and this was certainly true in the case of the American census. Following the population trends established by previous surveys, it was estimated that the census of 1890 would be required to handle data from more than 62 million Americans. In addition to being prohibitively expensive, the existing system of making tally marks in small squares on rolls of paper and then adding the marks together by hand was extremely time consuming. In fact it was determined that, if the system remained unchanged, there was no chance of collating the data from the 1890 census into any useful form until well after the 1900 census had taken place, by which time the 1890 data would be of little value. a The solution to this problem was developed during the 1880s by an American inventor called Herman Hollerith, whose idea it was to use Jacquard's punched cards to represent the census data, and to then read and collate this data using an automatic machine. a While he was a lecturer at MIT, Hollerith developed a simple prototype which employed cards he punched using a tram conductor's ticket punch, where each card was intended to contain the data associated with a particular individual.
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Exploremy : Brief History Of The Computer
The author takes the user through a short tour of computer history including subjects such as advances in the 50's and 60's. Also includes photos of Charles Babbage and herman hollerith.
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Extractions: Download this paper in PDF format Note: Yes, a lot of this is from Groliers Encyclopaedia. Hey, I was young. I didn't know any better. Credit where credit is due. Also, this information is only current as of the early 1990's (1993, to be exact), and no I'm not planning to add more information anytime soon. Citing This Work You are welcome to use this document as a reference in creating your own paper or research work on the subject. Please don't just copy this paper verbatim and submit it as your own work, as I put a lot of time and effort into it. Plus, it's bad karma. If you would like to use this work, please use this citation in your bibliography: Meyers, Jeremy, "A Short History of the Computer" [Online] Available <http://www.softlord.com/comp/> <Date you accessed this page> Table of Contents: In The Beginning...
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Fascinating facts about herman hollerith inventor of an early computer, the punch card machine in 1890.
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Extractions: Fascinating facts about Herman Hollerith inventor of an early computer, the punch card machine in 1890. Hollerith, Herman (1860-1929), American inventor, born in Buffalo, New York, and educated at Columbia University, who devised a system of encoding data on cards through a series of punched holes. This system proved useful in statistical work and was important in the development of the digital computer. Hollerith's machine, used in the 1890 U.S. census, "read" the cards by passing them through electrical contacts. Closed circuits, which indicated hole positions, could then be selected and counted. His Tabulating Machine Company (1896) was a predecessor to the International Business Machines Corporation. TO LEARN MORE RELATED INFORMATION:
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herman hollerith is widely regarded as the father of modern automatic computation. hollerith, herman, In connection with the electric tabulation system
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Extractions: Photo: IBM. Herman Hollerith is widely regarded as the father of modern automatic computation. He chose the punched card as the basis for storing and processing information and he built the first punched-card tabulating and sorting machines as well as the first key punch, and he founded the company that was to become IBM. Hollerith's designs dominated the computing landscape for almost 100 years. After receiving his Engineer of Mines (EM) degree at age 19, Hollerith worked on the 1880 US census, a laborious and error-prone operation that cried out for mechanization. After some initial trials with paper tape , he settled on punched cards (pioneered in the Jacquard loom ) to record information, and designed special equipment a tabulator and sorter to tally the results. His designs won the competition for the 1890 US census, chosen for their ability to count combined facts. These machines reduced a ten-year job to three months (different sources give different numbers, ranging from six weeks to three years)
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hollerith, herman . herman hollerith. person The promulgator of the punched card. hollerith was born on 186002-29 and died on 1929-11-17.
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Herman Hollerith
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Extractions: related subjects Achievement Biography Son of German immigrants born in Buffalo, New York. In 1879 he got his masters at the University of Columbia School for mining and started to work for the cencus buro in Washington. He came at the right time to see hundreds of clercks wrestling to proces all data of the cencus from 1880 by hand. John Shaw Billings, a high official for the buro and Hollerith's future father in law, suggested to process all counting by punched cards, and Hollerith started to work through the 80's and developed a system just for that puirpose. It is un known whether Billings gotr the idea himself. From studying Jaquards loom or by watching the railway conductors punching tickets But he was satisfied with the idea that Hollerith followed up on the idea. By 1890 Hollerith perfected the system. In a census office speed contest, his statistical tabulator bested several rivals to win the 1890 census contract. And this forged a new link in the chain of computer history.
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Translate this page herman hollerith, que trabajaba como empleado del buró de Censos, herman hollerith en 1896 fundó la Tabulating Machine Company que luego se fusionó con
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Extractions: Desarrolló una prensa manual que detectaba los orificios en las tarjetas perforadas. Tenía un alambre que pasaba a través de los huecos dentro de una copa de mercurio debajo de la tarjeta, cerrando de este modo el circuito eléctrico. Este proceso disparaba unos contadores mecánicos y ordenaba los recipientes de las tarjetas, tabulando así en forma apropiada la información. La máquina de Hollerith era eléctrica y procesaba los hoyos en las tarjetas basándose en la lógica de Boole En 1880 se celebró un censo de población nacional en los Estados Unidos y tuvieron que transcurrir 7 largos años antes de que toda la información quedase procesada por el Buró de Censos, debido a que los datos levantados eran tabulados en papel. Por consiguiente se estimó que el próximo censo a celebrarse en 1890 tardaría unos 10 o 12 años en procesarse para obtener los resultados finales. Es por ello que el gobierno norteamericano convocó a una licitación para un sistema de procesamiento de datos que proporcionase resultados más rápidos.
Herman Hollerith
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History Of Computing Science: Herman Hollerith
Part of a multipage presentation on the history of computers. This page talks about hollerith s Tabulator Machine.
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Extractions: A step toward automated computation was the introduction of punched cards, which were first successfully used in connection with computing in 1890 by Herman Hollerith working for the U.S. Census Bureau. He developed a device which could automatically read census information which had been punched onto card. Surprisingly, he did not get the idea from the work of Babbage, but rather from watching a train conductor punch tickets. As a result of his invention, reading errors were consequently greatly reduced, work flow was increased, and, more important, stacks of punched cards could be used as an accessible memory store of almost unlimited capacity; furthermore, different problems could be stored on different batches of cards and worked on as needed. Hollerith's tabulator became so successful that he started his own firm to market the device; this company eventually became International Business Machines (IBM). Computers: From the Past to the Present

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