Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for …

Hollerith applied for his first patent in 1884, outlining a proposed method to store data using holes punched into strips of paper, similar to how player pianos read thick rolls of paper full of …

Herman Hollerith (born February 29, 1860, Buffalo, New York, U.S.—died November 17, 1929, Washington, D.C.) was an American inventor of a tabulating machine that was an important …

Herman Hollerith did undergraduate work at the School of Mines of Columbia University in New York. In 1879 he began work the U.S. Census Office, and soon was appointed a special agent …

Hollerith, who was married and had six children, lived out his years in Washington, DC, and that’s where his relics are preserved today. His papers are in the Library of Congress, and his …

Mar 29, 2024 · But the origins of automatic data processing go back over 130 years to the pioneering work of one man: Herman Hollerith. An eccentric genius and shrewd businessman, …

Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for …

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 …

Born February 20, 1860, Buffalo, N. Y; died November 17, 1929, Washington, D. C.; inventor of the punched card which bears his name and the associated machinery for use in the 1890 US …

May 23, 2025 · Herman Hollerith was born on 29 February 1860, in Buffalo, New York. He was the youngest of six children of German immigrants Johann Georg Franz Hollerith and his …