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Hollerith, Herman, 1860-1929

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Personal name headingHollerith, Herman, 1860-1929
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Variant(s)Hollerith, H. (Herman), 1860-1929
Birth date1860-02-29
Death date1929-11-01
Found inAustrian, G. Herman Hollerith, forgotten giant of information processing, 1981 (subj.) t.p. (Herman Hollerith) CIP galley (19 yrs. old in 1879, d. 11/15/29)
Library of Congress Manuscript Division for Hollerith, H. Papers, 1850-1982 (Herman Hollerith; inventor and businessman; born 29 Feb. 1860 in Buffalo, N.Y.; instructor mech. engineering at MIT, 1882; invented tabulating machine used in U.S. census, 1890-1910; founded Tabulating Machine Co., 1896, which merged with other companies to form Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. (later IBM) in 1911; died in Washington, D.C., 1 Nov. 1929)
An electric tabulating system, 1889: t.p. (H. Hollerith)