A resolution to this problem was presented by Herman Hollerith. He developed a machine that could read data from paper cards. Census personnel entered the data by punching out the holes on the cards.

Obit Raymond Bird, who developed the UK's first mass-produced business computer, the Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC), has ...

Engineer Herman Hollerith of Washington, D.C. designed the first tabulating systems to help reduce data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. The machines were first used on a large scale in the 1890 ...

In 1889, US patent #395,791 is issued to Herman Hollerith for his "Art of Compiling Statistics," a punched card calculator. In 1896, Hollerith founded The Tabulating Machine Company, one of four ...

The first automatic data processing system. Developed by Herman Hollerith, a Census Bureau statistician, the machine was first used to count the U.S. census of 1890. It was so successful that ...

Engineer Herman Hollerith of Washington, D.C. designed the first tabulating systems to help reduce data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. The machines were first used on a large scale in the 1890 ...