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Herman Hollerith
Read a biography on the "Father of Information Processing".Category Kids and Teens School Time Computer Science ScientistsHerman Hollerith The World's First Statistical Engineer. by Mark Russo.Portrait of Hollerith. Herman Hollerith entered and won this competition.
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Extractions: Portrait of Hollerith In 1790 it took the United States' Census Bureau less than nine months to complete the first census. By 1860 the population increased almost tenfold since 1790, from 3.8 million to 31.8 million. In 1887 the Census Bureau completed the eleventh census seven years after it began. The inability to obtain census data in a reasonable time frame was a manifestation of what all data collectors had to face: With current technology the scale and complexity of some tabulations would soon be unthinkable In the case of the census, a solution was necessary. These calculations were not solely for bureaucrats or intellectual curiosity. A regular census was needed to uphold the integrity of the United States Constitution . The seats in the House of Representatives are assigned based on the census data. Due to the dynamic state of the nation's population at the time of the eleventh census the need to stay abreast on the changing demography of the country was particularly urgent. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century great changes in the composition of the population of the United States occurred. The population increased by more than twelve million between 1880 and 1890.
Hollerith
Read about the man who invented the tabulator Census Bureau.Category Kids and Teens School Time Computer Science ScientistsHerman Hollerith. Herman Hollerith's parents were immigrants to the United Statesfrom Germany in 1848 after political disturbances in that country.
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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]):-
Herman Hollerith
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Herman Hollerith From FOLDOC
Herman Hollerith. person The promulgator of the punched card. Hollerithwas born on 186002-29 and died on 1929-11-17. He graduated
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History Of Computing Science: Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith. Computers From the Past to the Present Herman HollerithLast modified January 3, 2003 ©19942003 by Michelle A. Hoyle.
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Extractions: A step toward automated computation was the introduction of punched cards, which were first successfully used in connection with computing in 1890 by Herman Hollerith working for the U.S. Census Bureau. He developed a device which could automatically read census information which had been punched onto card. Surprisingly, he did not get the idea from the work of Babbage, but rather from watching a train conductor punch tickets. As a result of his invention, reading errors were consequently greatly reduced, work flow was increased, and, more important, stacks of punched cards could be used as an accessible memory store of almost unlimited capacity; furthermore, different problems could be stored on different batches of cards and worked on as needed. Hollerith's tabulator became so successful that he started his own firm to market the device; this company eventually became International Business Machines (IBM). Computers: From the Past to the Present
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Herman Hollerith. person The promulgator of the punched card. Hollerithwas born on 186002-29 and died on 1929-11-17. He graduated
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HOLLERITH, HERMAN TO HYATT, GILBERT. Herman hollerith herman Hollerith'stabulating machine aided the 1890 census data. Its success
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Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith. Inducted 1990. Herman Hollerith invented and developed a punchcardtabulation machine system that revolutionized statistical computation.
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Extractions: Herman Hollerith Born February 29, 1860 - Died November 17, 1929 Art of Compiling Statistics; Apparatus for Compiling Statistics Patent Nos. 395,781; 395,782; 395,783 Inducted 1990 Herman Hollerith invented and developed a punch-card tabulation machine system that revolutionized statistical computation. Born in Buffalo, New York, the son of German immigrants, Hollerith enrolled in the City College of New York at age 15 and graduated from the Columbia School of Mines with distinction at the age of 19. His first job was with the U.S. Census effort of 1880. Hollerith successively taught mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for the U.S. Patent Office. The young engineer developed an electrically actuated brake system for the railroads, but the Westinghouse steam-actuated brake prevailed. Hollerith began working on the tabulating system during his days at MIT, filing for the first patent in 1884. He developed a hand-fed 'press' that sensed the holes in punched cards; a wire would pass through the holes into a cup of mercury beneath the card closing the electrical circuit. This process triggered mechanical counters and sorter bins and tabulated the appropriate data. Hollerith's system-including punch, tabulator, and sorter-allowed the official 1890 population count to be tallied in six months, and in another two years all the census data was completed and defined; the cost was $5 million below the forecasts and saved more than two years' time.
Herman Hollerith
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Herman Hollerith - Wikipedia
Herman Hollerith. Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860November 17, 1929)was an American business man and the promulgator of the punch card.
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Extractions: Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Older versions Special pages Set my user preferences My watchlist Recently updated pages Upload image files Image list Registered users Site statistics Random article Orphaned articles Orphaned images Popular articles Most wanted articles Short articles Long articles Newly created articles Interlanguage links All pages by title Blocked IP addresses Maintenance page External book sources Printable version Talk Log in Help From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Herman Hollerith February 29 November 17 ) was an American business man and the promulgator of the punch card Hollerith graduated from Columbia University New York and joined the US Census Bureau as a statistician where he used a punched card device (inspired by the system, used by the railroad conductors, of punching holes in various places on a passenger's ticket to identify the holder e.g., gender, age group) to help analyse the US census data. This later evolved into a punched card system that stored data in 80 columns. This "80-column" concept has carried forward in various forms into modern applications. On January 8 Hollerith received a patent for his electric tabulating machine . In , Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company to exploit his invention and in his firm became part of IBM . The Hollerith system was used for the 1911 UK census Based on a FOLDOC entry
The History Of Computers: Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith. Everybody links the name of this company with the useof computers. Herman Hollerith died at the age of 43 in 1929.
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Extractions: Those punched cards were read electronically: the cards were transported between brass rods, and when there were holes in the cards, the rods made contact and a electric current could flow. This device was constructed to allow the 1890 census to be tabulated. This construction meant a great improvement as hand tabulation was projected to take more than a decade. In 1896 the Tabulating Machine Company was founded by Hollerith. Twenty-eight years later, in 1924, after several take-overs the company became known as International Business Machines (IBM), a company which is well known nowadays. Everybody links the name of this company with the use of computers. Herman Hollerith died at the age of 43 in 1929. Authors:
Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith. The Hollerith Machine. (Click 1890. Dr. Herman Hollerithtried to find a better way to acquire the census count.
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Extractions: Herman Hollerith T he H ollerith M achine (Click on picture for another website about him) In 1880, it took over 7 years to complete the census count of 50 million. It was averaged that it would take over 10 years for the Bureau of the Census to finish the 60 million count in 1890. Dr. Herman Hollerith tried to find a better way to acquire the census count. Hollerith invented a series of machines, inspired by Jaquard's method using punched cards, that took care of the 1890 census automatically. It took only 6 weeks to complete the count that year. The data was punched into cards using a series of coumns, letters, and specific areas of the cards. This "Hollerith Machine" was a sucess! He patented his machine in 1884 and formed his own company called TMC (Tabulator Machine Company). In 1924, his company merged into IBM (International Business Machines), the worlds largest computer manufacturer.
Herman Hollerith - Wikipedia
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Information Sciences Hall Of Fame -- Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith (1860 1929). Herman Hollerith invented a tabulating machinewhich was the first that utilized punched cards in data processing.
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Extractions: Herman Hollerith (1860 - 1929) Herman Hollerith invented a tabulating machine which was the first that utilized punched cards in data processing. The machine greatly improved the efficiency and accuracy of data processing and it laid the foundation for the development of electronic computer. Indeed, his punched-card technology was used up to late 1970s. With his great invention, Hollerith secured his place in history as the father of information processing. Back to Table of Contents In 1884, Hollerith designed a punched tape machine to tabulate and process vital statistical data. The punched tape system was later replaced by punched cards which provided the capability of sorting and resorting of data. His machine was employed in the 1890 Census and was proved to be a great success. Indeed, the 1890 Census was completed in 3 years while the 1880 Census needed more than 7 years to complete. Subsequent to his success in the United States, Hollerith opened commercial markets overseas for his tabulating machine. The machine was sold to foreign countries including Austria, Italy, German, Russia, Canada, and Norway.
Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith. Herman Hollerith invented and developed a punchcard tabulationmachine system that revolutionized statistical computation.
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Extractions: Born February 29, 1860 - Died November 17, 1929 Patent Nos. 395,781; 395,782; 395,783 Inducted 1990 Herman Hollerith invented and developed a punch-card tabulation machine system that revolutionized statistical computation. Born in Buffalo, New York, the son of German immigrants, Hollerith enrolled in the City College of New York at age 15 and graduated from the Columbia School of Mines with distinction at the age of 19. His first job was with the U.S. Census effort of 1880. Hollerith successively taught mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for the U.S. Patent Office . The young engineer developed an electrically actuated brake system for the railroads, but the Westinghouse
Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith. Herman Hollerith (USA) devised a machine which would read punchedcards electrically and then record their contents on banks of counter dials.
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Extractions: Herman Hollerith The data from the USA census of 1880 took years to process, so the results were already out of date when they were available. To avoid a repeat of that, electromechanical data processing was used in the 1890 census. Herman Hollerith (USA) devised a machine which would read punched cards electrically and then record their contents on banks of counter dials. Using Hollerith's equipment enabled the census to be processed in six weeks.
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Herman Hollerith. Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860November 17, 1929)was an American business man and the promulgator of the punch card.
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Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith was an American statistical engineer who inventeda tabulating machine that was operated by punched cards. The
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Extractions: Herman Hollerith was an American statistical engineer who invented a tabulating machine that was operated by punched cards. The machine was first used in United States census in 1880 - 82. Hollerith was born in Buffalo, New York on February 29, 1860. His parents were German immigrants. He signed-on the City College of New York at the age of 15. When he was 19 he graduated from the Columbia School of Mines with an excellent report. His first job was at the U.S. Census Bureau, where he started at 1880.
Herman Hollerith
herman hollerith. From WordNet (r) 1.7. From The Free Online Dictionary of Computing(09 FEB 02). Herman Hollerith person The promulgator of the punched card.
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Extractions: herman hollerith From WordNet (r) 1.7 Herman Hollerith n : United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929) [syn: Hollerith Herman Hollerith From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02) Herman Hollerith 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. A correspondant writes: Wasn't Hollerith's original machine first used for the 1990 US census? And I think I am right in saying that the physical layout was a 20x12 grid of round holes. The one I have seen (picture only, unfortunately, not the real thing) did not use 'columns' as such but holes were grouped into irregularly-shaped fields, such that each hole had a more-or-less independent function. (2001-08-30) 2 definitions found Dictionary sytes.org
Inventor Herman Hollerith
Fascinating facts about herman hollerith inventor ofan early computer, the punch card machine in 1890.
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