FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -The tabulating machine was an electromechanical machine designed to assist in summarizing information stored on punched cards. Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census.

Detailed explanation-2: -Herman Hollerith’s impressive results earned him the contract to process and tabulate 1890 census data. Modified versions of his technology would continue to be used at the Census Bureau until replaced by computers in the 1950s.

Detailed explanation-3: -Herman Hollerith, (born February 29, 1860, Buffalo, New York, U.S.-died November 17, 1929, Washington, D.C.), American inventor of a tabulating machine that was an important precursor of the electronic computer.

Detailed explanation-4: -The punched card: A revolutionary data career By the middle of the 1880s, he had completed his first punched card system. It was in 1889, however, that Hollerith rose to fame when he presented his invention at the World Exposition in Paris.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hollerith’s work over the next decade eventually led to the groundbreaking invention of the punch card tabulating machine, installed in a federal government office for the very first time on this day in 1888.