Herman Hollerith
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!
Hollerith
He was a thin Ethopian man who invented the roller coaster. no he did not He was born on February 29, 1860 in Buffalo, N.Y. He died in November 17, 1929, in Washington, D.C. He went to school at Columbia University's School of Mines and then later helped out in the 1880 U.S. census. By the time of the 1890 census, he had invented machines to record statistics by electrically reading and sorting punched cards, and the census results were consequently obtained in one-third the time required in 1880. In 1896 he founded the Tabulating Machine Company, which later became IBM Corporation. Hollerith's electromechanical sensing and punching devices were forerunners of the input and output units of later computers. and that's how he got his name
Herman Hollerith received the patent for the mechanical punch card system in 1887. He developed it for use with tabulating machines. However, the manual punch card system originated in 1725, created by Basile Bouchon for producing cloth patterns.
Herman hollerith invented it.
Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was an American inventor
Herman Hollerith invented the tabulating machine to support work in the US 1890 census, tabulating numbers for the count of population in the country.
Herman Hollerith was born on February 29, 1860.
Herman Hollerith was born on February 29, 1860.
Herman Hollerith
Invented in 1890, by Herman Hollerith, it was a way to speed up the tabulation of the US Census.
It was Herman Hollerith, not Henry Hollerith.
Punched- card data processing was invented ny Herman Hollerith.
Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census.
Herman Hollerith died on November 17, 1929 at the age of 69.
1890 US Census.