Herman Hollerith

By admin , 21 December 2015
Herman
Hollerith
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Description

Inventor of the punched card, Hollerith was a German-American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the founder of the company that became IBM.

ibm
Invented the punched card
Date of Birth
1860-02-29
Date of Death
1929-11-17
Herman Hollerith

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