1890, i think...?
Herman Hollerith invented the tabulating machine to support work in the US 1890 census, tabulating numbers for the count of population in the country.
It was invented in 1929.
Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census.
British Tabulating Machine Company was created in 1902.
1890 US Census.
Invented in 1890, by Herman Hollerith, it was a way to speed up the tabulation of the US Census.
IBM
to help his father
IBM was originally called CTR (Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation) before changing to IBM in 1924. The original name comes from the 3 previous companies that were merged together in 1911 to form CTR. These companies were the International Time Recording company, the Tabulating Machine company, and the Computing Scale Corporation.
1890, by Herman Hollerith for US 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 tabulating machine was an electromechanical machine designed to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting and was developed by Herman Hollerith, the founder of IBM. The modern version is a calculator.