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Herman Hollerith

1860 - 1929

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Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing information and, later, in accounting. His invention of the punched card tabulating machine, patented in 1884, marks the beginning of the era of mechanized binary code and semiautomatic data processing systems, and his concept dominated that landscape for nearly a century.Hollerith founded a company that was amalgamated in 1911 with several other companies to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. In 1924, the company was renamed "International Business Machines" (IBM) and became one of the largest and most successful companies of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herman Hollerith has received more than 914,661 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Herman Hollerith is the 40th most popular inventor (down from 38th in 2019), the 332nd most popular biography from United States (down from 317th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Inventor.

Herman Hollerith is most famous for inventing the punch card tabulator.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Herman Hollerith ranks 40 out of 354Before him are Joseph Marie Jacquard, Abbas ibn Firnas, László Bíró, Ismail al-Jazari, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, and Konrad Zuse. After him are Nicolas Appert, Igor Sikorsky, Adolphe Sax, Richard Trevithick, Charles Goodyear, and Karl Drais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Herman Hollerith ranks 11Before him are Alphonse Mucha, Klara Hitler, Eduard Buchner, Raymond Poincaré, Willem Einthoven, and Isaac Albéniz. After him are William Jennings Bryan, James Ensor, Niels Ryberg Finsen, J. M. Barrie, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, and Jane Addams. Among people deceased in 1929, Herman Hollerith ranks 5Before him are Karl Benz, Georges Clemenceau, Ferdinand Foch, and Gustav Stresemann. After him are Bernhard von Bülow, Emile Berliner, Sergei Diaghilev, Wilhelm Maybach, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Prince Maximilian of Baden, and Thorstein Veblen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Herman Hollerith ranks 332 out of 18,182Before him are O. J. Simpson (1947), Anton LaVey (1930), Lewis H. Morgan (1818), Clinton Davisson (1881), Michael Porter (1947), and Man Ray (1890). After him are Sandra Bullock (1964), John Bardeen (1908), Bill Murray (1950), James Fenimore Cooper (1789), Truman Capote (1924), and Joseph Stiglitz (1943).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Herman Hollerith ranks 8Before him are Henry Ford (1863), Samuel Morse (1791), Samuel Colt (1814), Steve Wozniak (1950), George Westinghouse (1846), and Robert Fulton (1765). After him are Charles Goodyear (1800), William G. Morgan (1870), Willis Carrier (1876), Isaac Singer (1811), John Deere (1804), and Douglas Engelbart (1925).