Herman Hollerith
- (b.) 1860 February 29 - (d.) 1929 November 17
Bio/Description
Inventor of the punched card, Hollerith was a German-American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the founder of the company that became IBM.
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Date of Birth:
1860 February 29 -
Date of Death:
1929 November 17 -
Gender:
Male -
Noted For:
Invented the punched card -
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