It was NOT a computer. Herman Hollerith invented a set of manually operated punch card handling devices.
1890 US Census.
Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census.
Hollerith was an employee of the US Census Bureau. As there were no electronic computers, it was not a computer punch card, but was used in the 1890 census to semi-automate the processing and counting using electromechanical counters and sorters.
To count data in the 1890 census, which could not have been completed on time to meet the requirements of the constitution using traditional hand methods. The tabulator also controlled a sorter so that cards could be separated for appropriate further processing later on other tabulators.
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1890 US Census.
The Hollerith computer card was invented in 1890.
Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census.
Invented in 1890, by Herman Hollerith, it was a way to speed up the tabulation of the US Census.
actually long before computers existed, it was a deck of punchcards used on electromechanical unit record equipment. the US census bureau used them first in 1890.
Yes there was an 1890 census for the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.RESOURCES= WWW.FEEFHS.COM
The 1890 US Census recorded 1,289,600 persons.
Rita Babin Butler has written: 'Ascension Parish, Louisiana, 1890 U.S. census' -- subject(s): Census, 11th, 1890, Census, 1890, Genealogy, Registers of births
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Hollerith was an employee of the US Census Bureau. As there were no electronic computers, it was not a computer punch card, but was used in the 1890 census to semi-automate the processing and counting using electromechanical counters and sorters.
To count data in the 1890 census, which could not have been completed on time to meet the requirements of the constitution using traditional hand methods. The tabulator also controlled a sorter so that cards could be separated for appropriate further processing later on other tabulators.
Mary C. Moody has written: 'Every name index to the 1880 Leon County, Texas federal census' -- subject(s): Census, 10th, 1880, Census, 1880, Genealogy, Indexes, Registers of births 'Every name index to the 1880 Caldwell County, Texas federal census' -- subject(s): Census, 10th, 1880, Census, 1880, Genealogy, Indexes, Registers of births '1890 Limestone County, Texas, census' -- subject(s): Census, 11th, 1890, Census, 1890, Genealogy, Registers of births '1890 Caldwell County, Texas census, uniquely reconstructed & annotated' -- subject(s): Census, 11th, 1890, Census, 1890, Genealogy, Registers of births 'Every name index to the 1880 Walker County, Texas federal census' -- subject(s): Census, 10th, 1880, Census, 1880, Genealogy, Indexes, Registers of births 'Every name index to the 1880 Hamilton County, Texas federal census' -- subject(s): Census, 10th, 1880, Census, 1880, Genealogy, Indexes, Registers of births 'Every name index to the 1880 Montgomery County, Texas federal census' -- subject(s): Census, 10th, 1880, Census, 1880, Genealogy, Indexes, Personal Names, Registers of births '1890 Montgomery County, Texas census uniquely reconstructed & annotated' -- subject(s): Census, 11th, 1890, Census, 1890, Genealogy, Registers of births