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.

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. With the nation’s population ...

The former Georgetown home of one of Washington’s early technology pioneers has gone on the market. Herman Hollerith came to Washington in 1879 to work as a statistician in the Census Office.

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 had designed the machine but needed money to test it. Picture something that looks a bit like an upright piano but instead of keys, it has a slot for cards, about the size of a ...

The machine was built by Herman Hollerith, a New York statistician. Hollerith undertook the project under contract from the Census Bureau, which had taken eight years to tabulate its 1880 census ...

The inventor of punched cards, which led to the first computers and companies like IBM, was aiming to solve a gnarly problem at the time: data collection for the census.

The Economist: In 1886 Herman Hollerith, a statistician, started a business to rent out the tabulating machines he had originally invented for America’s census. Taking a page from train ...

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.

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 ...