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    Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical...
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    Punched card (redirect from Hollerith card)
    and the Melotrope which played the music. At the end of the 1800s Herman Hollerith created a method for recording data on a medium that could then be...
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  • Herman "Holly" Hollerith IV (born 1955) was the tenth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia, serving from 2009 until 2018. Hollerith was...
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    1935 IBM renamed the magazine Think. Herman Hollerith initially did business under his own name, as The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System, specializing...
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    assist in summarizing information stored on punched cards. Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census...
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  • Hollerith is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman...
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    to the German-American inventor of the technology of punched cards, Herman Hollerith. In April 1949 the company name was changed to IBM Deutschland. The...
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  • Hollerith constants, named in honor of Herman Hollerith, were used in early FORTRAN programs to allow manipulation of character data. Early FORTRAN had...
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  • that done by computer. Herman Hollerith then at the U.S. Census Bureau devised a tabulating system that included cards (Hollerith card, later Punched card)...
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    the census was mechanized in 1890, with tabulating machines made by Herman Hollerith. This reduced the processing time to two and a half years. For the...
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