Herman Hollerith

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(b.) February 29, 1860 — (d.) November 17, 1929

Description

Inventor of the punched card, Hollerith was a German-American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the founder of the company that became IBM.

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Noted For: Invented the punched card
Category: Historical Pioneer (Pre-Moderns)
Affiliation: ibm
Gender: Male

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