LC control no. | n 81049885 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Hollerith, Herman, 1860-1929 |
Variant(s) | Hollerith, H. (Herman), 1860-1929 |
Birth date | 1860-02-29 |
Death date | 1929-11-01 |
Found in | Austrian, 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) |