Comments on: Taking stock…

By: nishansolo

nishansolo — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:48:19 +0000

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.

By: Dibyo

Dibyo — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:44:30 +0000

Edison and the early stock ticker?

By: Bipin Banavalikar

Bipin Banavalikar — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:19:29 +0000

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.

By: priyananda

priyananda — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:07:11 +0000

Hollerith Electric Tabulator
Herman Hollerith.
First data processing computer.

By: ali

ali — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:01:28 +0000

Hollerith Electric Tabulating System
Herman Hollerith
used by the US Census Bureau in 1908.

By: Ananth

Ananth — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:16:11 +0000

Guess…
This is George Kemp, Marconi’s assistant operating the wireless radio.

By: vivek

vivek — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:48:39 +0000

Herman Hollerith operating his punched card reader which was used first in the US census in 1890. Famous becasue it later became IBM???

By: Mridul Kapoor

Mridul Kapoor — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:36:29 +0000

Herman Hollerith operating the Tabulating Machine

By: Aditya

Aditya — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:12:52 +0000

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.

By: tempo

tempo — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:32:49 +0000

Herman Hollerith operating the Tabulating Machine for US Census in 1890

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