Hollerith data machine in an office at the Edgar Allen Steel Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Artist: Michael Walters
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Hollerith data machine in an office at the Edgar Allen Steel Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Herman Hollerith was born in 1860 of German parentage and developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards in order to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the founder of the company that became IBM and the early machines were used as early as 1890 for the US census.
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- Michael Walters, attributed to: British: Photographer
People Related
- Herman Hollerith: American: Inventor, engineer, teacher
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World Europe United Kingdom England South Yorkshire Sheffield Sheffield
- 53 22 00 N , 001 30 00 W
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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3681x4758
File Size : 51,312kb
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- 6848
- 0710000796
- 2-362-286
- 2362286
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