Herman Hollerith

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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1. When was Herman Hollerith born?February 29, 1860
2. Where was Herman Hollerith born?Buffalo, New York, USA
3. What is Herman Hollerith known for?Development of the electromechanical tabulating machine and punched card technology
4. What is the career?Statistician, inventor, businessman
5. Who was Herman Hollerith?Herman Hollerith was a statistician and inventor born on February 29, 1860. He created a machine that could count faster than a hundred people!
6. What did Hollerith invent?He invented an electromechanical tabulating machine that used punched cards with holes to store data. The machine could read the holes with pins and quickly add up numbers.

Electromechanical Tabulating Machine: A device using electrical and mechanical components to sort and count data from punched cards.
Mechanized Binary Code: An early system representing data using the presence or absence of holes, a precursor to digital binary.
Data Processing: The systematic collection, manipulation, storage, and retrieval of data.
Seminal Figure: An individual whose ideas or work are very important and influential in a particular field.