As a schoolboy growing up in New York City in the 1870s, Herman Hollerith often managed to sneak out of the schoolroom just before spelling lessons. His teacher noticed and one day locked the door ...

Statistician and inventor Herman Hollerith became known as the father of modern automatic computation for his electric tabulating system, which revolutionized the US census. He was recruited to work ...

Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine proved to be pivotal in the history of information technology. Wikipedia Commons. In 1890, the U.S. Government had a problem.

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.

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 ...

The 11,000-square-foot home was built in 1911 for Herman Hollerith. The historic Hollerith House in Georgetown has sold for $17.75 million to the Embassy of the State of Qatar, according to a deed ...

On June 8, 1887, Herman Hollerith applied for US patent #395,781 for his punch card counting machine, a device considered to be among the foundations of the modern information processing industry and ...

During the 1880s the engineer Herman Hollerith devised a set of machines for compiling data from the United States Census. Hollerith's tabulating system included a punch for entering data about each ...

A Washington, D.C., property built for Herman Hollerith, the engineer behind the machines that laid the foundation for the development of computers, is coming on the market for $18.75 million.

Hollerith House was built in 1911 by inventor Herman Hollerith. Gordon Beall. 1 of 11. By Katishi Maake – Staff Reporter, Washington Business Journal. Sep 21, 2018.

Herman Hollerith came to Washington in 1879 to work as a statistician in the Census Office. His experience processing data for the 1880 Census led him to develop a punch-card system that was used ...