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What was so significant about the contest Herman Hollerith won?
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.
Who invented the computer for the census in 1890?
It was NOT a computer. Herman Hollerith invented a set of manually operated punch card handling devices.
What was Herman hollerith's punch card system used to calculate in the 1890's?
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What was the name of Herman Holleriths invention?
The US 1880 census took over 7 years to complete. With the expanding population and new additional data collection requirements, the US 1890 census was expected to take longer than 10 years which would fail to meet the requirements of the constitution for apportioning the membership of Congress to the states. It was decided to have a competition for new sysstems for doing the census. Herman Hollerith is the US Census Bureau worker that won the competition for a new system of performing a census. His system based on punchcards and electromechanical machines was then used in the US 1890 census. The US 1890 census was completed in a little over a year. Additional data was extracted and tabulated in the next couple years. He founded the Tabulating Machine Company, which was later to become IBM.
Who invented the punch card method of storing numbers?
Some claim that it was Hollerith, but he only used an existing technology for a different application.http://www.maxmon.com/punch1.htmClaims are that Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented the punch card. http://www.maxmon.com/1800ad.htm
What was so significant about the contest Herman Hollerith won?
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.
Who invented the computer for the census in 1890?
It was NOT a computer. Herman Hollerith invented a set of manually operated punch card handling devices.
Which bureau of government first used punch cards?
Herman Hollerith
What was Herman hollerith's punch card system used to calculate in the 1890's?
nuthing it was dumb
Who Had a job to send up the 1890 census and devised a punch card machine?
The answer is Herman Hollerith.
Which name is associated with punched cards?
If it's punch cards, it's IBM. They are the one's who "made it big" in the early computer days. But they were actually invented in 1881 by Herman Hollerith, an American engineer.
What year was the computer punch card invented?
The Hollerith computer card was invented in 1890.
Who invented the punch card machine?
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!
Who developed the first punch card system in 1887?
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.
Hollerith's machine implemented what type of memory technology?
punch cards
What is Hollerith's punch cards and tabulating machines?
They were used to record information
In what episode did Bob Newhart reference Herman Hollerith?
Not sure if there was an episode where he mentioned it, but there was an IBM sales/training film featuring Newhart doing his deadpan monologue as a patent clerk explaining over the phone to Hollerith how his punch cards would never catch on. http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/100395
