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Some claim that it was Hollerith, but he only used an existing technology for a different application.
http://www.maxmon.com/punch1.htm
Claims are that Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented the punch card. http://www.maxmon.com/1800ad.htm
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∙ 13y agoLater, Herman Hollerith (1860-1929) designed a method to store numbers onto punched cards, which was used to calculate the 1890 census, and the company he founded eventually became IBM Corporation.
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