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