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Article: Hollerith, Herman
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Hollerith, Herman
American Inventor and Engineer
1860
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1929
Born on February 29, 1860, in Buffalo, New York, Herman H. Hollerith was a prolific inventor and a pioneer in data processing. His punched-card tabulating machines, although primitive by modern standards, provided the first viable method of processing vast amounts of information in a timely and cost-effective way. When he died on November 17, 1929, he left behind a technology that, with continued improvement, would eventually lead to the development of the modern computer.
Hollerith was the son of German immigrants and one of five children. His father died in an accident when Hollerith was only seven, and to support ...