Hollerith and Lanston are listed
Patent number: 622157
Filing date: May 25, 1894
Issue date: Mar 28, 1899
Invented in 1890, by Herman Hollerith, it was a way to speed up the tabulation of the US Census.
1890 US Census.
Hollerith
1890, by Herman Hollerith for US 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.
Semiautomated punchcard based Census tabulating counter and sorting machines, for 1890 US census.
The answer is Herman Hollerith.
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. K.J.C
Herman Hollerith did not actually win a contest, but he was one of the people that led to the development of the computer. Herman Hollerith is famous for inventing a punch card device. The punch card device was used in the 1896 Census in the United States.
Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census.
Herman Hollerith developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly compile statistics. He worked for the US Census Bureau building his machines, before going into business for himself.