Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine proved to be pivotal in the history of information technology. Wikipedia Commons In 1890, the U.S. Government had a problem. With the nation’s population growing ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This machine was used to punch paper ...

In the late 19th century, population growth, expansion of business and government, and developments in statistics encouraged compilation of extensive information. Particularly in the United States, ...

Statistician and inventor Herman Hollerith became known as the father of modern automatic computation for his electric tabulating system, which revolutionized the US census. He was recruited to work ...

US computing giant IBM celebrates its 100th anniversary today, a century passing since business Charles Flint oversaw the merger of Hollerith’s Tabluating Machine Company with the Computing Scale ...

This week’s milestone in the history of technology is the patent that launched the ongoing quest to get machines to help us and them know more about our world, from tabulating machines to machine ...

In 1911, four companies merged and were incorporated by Charles R. Flint. The four companies were Tabulating Machine Company, International Time Recording Company, Computing Scale Company of America ...

Tabulating Machine Company One of four companies that became IBM LAST UPDATED ON November 17th, 2014 Description Founded by Herman Hollerith in 1896. Prior to this, Hollerith had been at the US Census ...