November 24, 2008
Taking stock…
PlayAn iconic image that has been pending for a long time before coming here. What is this device, who’s operating it, and why was it famous?
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Answer:
Herman Hollerith, operating the Hollerith tabulator while doing some US census related hijinks in 1908. This eventually led to the founding of IBM :-)
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November 25th, 2008 at 12:19 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227572359 )
Herman Hollerith of the punched card fame
November 25th, 2008 at 12:33 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227573185 )
Hollerith 1890 Census Tabulator
Herman Hollerith
IBM started off thus, punch cards were used, the term SuperComputing… lots of stuff…
November 25th, 2008 at 1:32 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227576769 )
Herman Hollerith operating the Tabulating Machine for US Census in 1890
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November 25th, 2008 at 2:12 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227579172 )
Herman Hollerith, working on a Punched Card Tabulating Machine. This device was invented by him to calculate the US Census data. He later founded IBM.
November 25th, 2008 at 2:36 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227580589 )
Herman Hollerith operating the Tabulating Machine
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Herman Hollerith operating his punched card reader which was used first in the US census in 1890. Famous becasue it later became IBM???
November 25th, 2008 at 11:16 am, GMT +0000 ( 1227611771 )
Guess…
This is George Kemp, Marconi’s assistant operating the wireless radio.
November 25th, 2008 at 12:01 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1227614488 )
Hollerith Electric Tabulating System
Herman Hollerith
used by the US Census Bureau in 1908.
November 25th, 2008 at 7:07 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1227640031 )
Hollerith Electric Tabulator
Herman Hollerith.
First data processing computer.
November 25th, 2008 at 8:19 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1227644369 )
Device: Hollerith Tabulator
Person Operating : Hermann Hollerith
Famous for : It applied the technique of sorting and counting the punch cards.
He started Tabulating Machine Company which further known as International Business Machines(IBM) whose solid foundation was punched card business machines.
November 25th, 2008 at 9:44 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1227649470 )
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November 25th, 2008 at 9:48 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1227649699 )
Device – Tabulating Machine
Person – Herman Hollerith
It was famous, because this was the machine that was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census.