The 1890 and 1900 US censuses. It was also used for censuses in several other countries, once it was proved in the US. Some insurance companies also used it to compile their statistics.
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Herman Hollerith is the founder of The Tabulating Machine Company in 1896 which later became the International Business Machine in 1924, after a few mergers.
It was invented in 1929.
to help his father
Herman Hollerith invented the tabulating machine to support work in the US 1890 census, tabulating numbers for the count of population in the country.
There can be various opinions on this. The abacus, invented thousands of years ago, is sometimes regarded as the first computer, but obviously we don't know who invented it. Napier's Bones or Rods, invented by John Napier, are used for doing calculations, going back to the 16th century. Charles Babbage is regarded as the father of computers, having invented a computer device in the 19th century. Other computing devices used methods from other areas of industry, like punched cards used in Herman Holleriths Tabulating machine, also in the 19th century. So there are lots of contenders for the answer to your question.
1890, by Herman Hollerith for US census.
Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census.
Herman Hollerith was likely the person you're looking for. He invented and was awarded patents for a series of machines that used punched holes for a method of recording data. The true ancestor of our punch cards we think of today such as the IBM type 80. Hope this helps!
The answer is Herman Hollerith.
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