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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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21. Hollerith
    See a photo and read a brief bio for this electrical engineer who developed the hollerith Electric Tabulating System. herman hollerith. Born 29 Feb 1860 in Buffalo, New York, USA  
    http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hollerith.html
    
    Extractions: 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]):-

22. Hollerith, Herman
    (Infoplease.com)  
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23. 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.

24. Herman Hollerith
    Februar 1860 in Buffab, New York, geborene herman hollerith das Verfahren, elektrische Klaviere mit Hilfe gelochter  
    http://www.dolacek.de/hollerith.htm

25. Instituto Herman Hollerith
    Establecimiento educativo de San Miguel de Tucum¡n. Cuenta con niveles inicial, EGB 1 y 2, polimodal, terciarios y cursos de extensi³n.  
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26. References For Hollerith
    References for herman hollerith. Books GD Austrian, herman hollerith forgotten giant of information processing (New York, 1982).  
    http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/References/Hollerith.html
    
    Extractions: F Gareth Ashurst, Pioneers of computing (London, 1983), 77-90. A Class, Introducing the past master of punch cards, Computing Herman Hollerith, Dictionary of American Biography Supp 1, 415-416. Herman Hollerith, The New York Times (19 November, 1929). Herman Hollerith, The Evening Star (Washington) (18 November, 1929). F W Kistermann, The invention and development of the Hollerith punched card : in commemoration of the 130th anniversary of the birth of Herman Hollerith and for the 100th anniversary of large scale data processing, Annals of the history of computing K S Reid-Green, The history of census tabulation, Scientific American Main index Birthplace Maps Biographies Index

27. Sdc: Site {computer History}
    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.  
    http://www.softlord.com/comp/
    
    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...

28. Hollerith, Herman
    hollerith, herman, hO'lurith Pronunciation Key. hollerith, herman , 1860–1929,American inventor, b. Buffalo, NY After graduating from Columbia Univ.  
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    Extractions: Pronunciation Key Hollerith, Herman , American inventor, b. Buffalo, N.Y. After graduating from Columbia Univ. (B.S., 1879), he worked on the U.S. Census of 1880. Intrigued by the problem of tabulating vast amounts of data, he developed over the next several years a card that could be represent data through a series of punched holes and a number of machines for punching and tabulating the cards. In 1896 Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company which, through mergers and acquisitions, grew into the International Business Machines Company. See G. Austrian

29. Herman Hollerith From FOLDOC
    hollerith, herman . herman hollerith. person The promulgator of thepunched card. hollerith was born on 186002-29 and died on 1929-11-17.  
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30. Herman Hollerith From FOLDOC
    hollerith, herman . herman hollerith. person The promulgator of thepunched card. hollerith was born on 186002-29 and died on 1929-11-17.  
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31. Invent Now | Hall Of Fame | Search | Inventor Profile
    herman hollerith Born Feb 29 1860 Died Nov 17 1929 Art of Compiling Statistics;Apparatus for Compiling Statistics Punch Card Tabulator Patent Number(s  
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32. IBM Archives -- Catalog / Personal Names / Hollerith, Herman
    Search Archives. Advanced Search. Catalog / Personal Names / hollerith, herman,Limit formats. All Formats Image. Subjects. articles (4). media (1). Folders.  
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33. IBM Archives -- Catalog / Personal Names / Hollerith, Herman
    Advanced Search. Catalog / Personal Names / hollerith, herman, Limit formats. AllFormats Image. Subjects. media (1). Folders. About IBM Privacy Legal Contact.  
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34. Hollerith, Herman. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
    The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. hollerith, herman. 1. See G. Austrian,herman hollerith (1982). 2. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.  
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35. Hollerith, Herman. The American Heritage® Dictionary Of The English Language: F
    hollerith, herman. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English LanguageFourth Edition. 2000. 2000. hollerith, herman. SYLLABICATION Hol·ler·ith.  
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    Extractions: Select Search All Bartleby.com All Reference Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference American Heritage Dictionary holler ... BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. Hollerith, Herman

36. Herman Hollerith From FOLDOC
    hollerith, herman . herman hollerith. person The promulgator of thepunched card. hollerith was born on 186002-29 and died on 1929-11-17.  
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37. Dictionary Of Computers, Multi-Media And The Internet - Hollerith, Herman
    COMPUTERS. hollerith, herman (1860–1929). US inventor of a mechanicaltabulating machine, the first device for highvolume data processing.  
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    Extractions: COMPUTERS US inventor of a mechanical tabulating machine, the first device for high-volume data processing. Hollerith's tabulator was widely publicized after being successfully used in the 1890 census. The firm he established, the Tabulating Machine Company, was later one of the founding companies of IBM Hollerith was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended the Columbia University School of Mines. From 1884 to 1896 he worked for the US Patent Office. Working on the 1880 US census, he saw the need for an automated recording process for data, and had the idea of punching holes in cards or rolls of paper. By 1889 he had developed machines for recording, counting, and collating census data. The system was used 1891 for censuses in several countries, and was soon adapted to the needs of government departments and businesses that handled large quantities of data.

38. Hollerith, Herman
    HUTCHINSON ENCYCLOPEDIA. hollerith, herman. US inventor of a mechanicaltabulating machine, the first device for highvolume data processing.  
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    Extractions: HUTCHINSON ENCYCLOPEDIA Hollerith, Herman US inventor of a mechanical tabulating machine, the first device for high-volume data processing. Hollerith's tabulator was widely publicized after being successfully used in the 1890 census. The firm he established, the Tabulating Machine Company, was later one of the founding companies of IBM.

39. Hollerith, Herman
    is edited by Denis Howe dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk . Previous hole model Nexthollerithabetical order. hollerith, herman. herman hollerith.  
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40. Herman Hollerith
    Previous here document Next Hermes. herman hollerith. person The promulgatorof the punched card. hollerith was born on 186002-29 and died on 1929-11-17.  
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    Extractions: The Free Online Dictionary of Computing ( http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/ dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk Previous: here document Next: Hermes person punched card . Hollerith was born on 1860-02-29 and died on 1929-11-17. He graduated from Columbia University, NewYork, NY, USA. He joined the US Census Bureau as a statistician where he used a punched card device to help analyse the 1880 US census data. This punched card system stored data in 80 columns. This "80-column" concept has carried forward in various forms into modern applications. In 1896, Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company to exploit his invention and in 1924 his firm became part of IBM . The Hollerith system was used for the 1911 UK census.

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