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, ...

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 ...

1890: The U.S. Census Bureau uses a tabulating machine for the first time. Freed of the laborious process of hand-sorting its data, the bureau is able to produce a complete census within two years.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. During the 1880s the engineer Herman ...

IBM turns 100 years old on Thursday, and what a trip the company has made from its origins in punch cards and "calculating machines." Here, a brief history of innovation from the tech powerhouse. From ...

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 ...

Commissioned by the United States Census Bureau to make counting people easier, the device would lead to the creation of IBM After the United States Census Bureau dispatched its workers across the ...

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 ...

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 ...