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Herman Hollerith's Tabulating Machine
Herman Hollerith1890
The National Museum of Computing
MILTON KEYNES, United Kingdom
Herman Hollerith invented his Tabulating Machine to speed up and partially mechanise the processing of data during the 1890 US census (an official survey of the population). The Tabulating Machine used punched cards to efficiently and accurately record each person's information.
Details
- Title: Herman Hollerith's Tabulating Machine
- Creator: Herman Hollerith
- Date Created: 1890
- Location: Computer History Museum (California, USA).
- Rights: Credit: Replica of Herman Hollerith's Punched Card Tabulator and Sorting Device at The Computer History Museum (25/02/2007). Credit: Adam Schuster. Attribution: CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons.
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