COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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What device was created to speed up the 1890 Census?
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Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine
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ENIAC
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Stepped Reckoner
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None of these
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Herman Hollerith’s punched card tabulator transformed the census process-and information processing in general-beginning with the 1890 US census. The machine was able to collect and count data more rapidly and accurately than manual processes had allowed in the past.
Detailed explanation-2: -Herman Hollerith, a former Census Office employee himself, invented a much more effective counting machine. His machine used specially encoded punch cards, each representing an individual’s census data.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1890, the U.S. Government had a problem. With the nation’s population growing rapidly, hand-counting the results was proving impractical-the 1880 census took a full 7 years to tabulate.
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