What Does Herman Hollerith Mean?
Herman Hollerith is the creator of the Hollerith Electric Tabulating System, which is an ancestor of the computer. The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System gained reputation for its contribution to the 1890 United States census, but the first time it was used was actually in 1887 for calculating mortality statistics. The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System used punched cards to record and process data.
Techopedia Explains Herman Hollerith
Born in Buffalo, New York in 1860, Herman Hollerith studied engineering, and went on to teach mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is best known for his invention of a tabulating machine, known as the Hollerith Electric Tabulating System. He filed a patent for his machine in 1884, and it was granted in 1889.
