Herman Hollerith

✶February 29, 1860

†November 17, 1929

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About their life

Herman Hollerith was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing information and, later, in accounting. His invention of the punched card tabulating machine, patented in 1884, marks the beginning of the era of mechanized binary code and semiautomatic data processing systems, and his concept dominated that landscape for nearly a century.

American statistician and inventor

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Biography from the article Herman Hollerith on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.