COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Dr. John Napier
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Dr. J, Presper Eckert
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Dr. John Mauchly
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Dr. Herman Hollerith
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Detailed explanation-1: -Herman Hollerith Created the first mechanical punched card tabulator. Dr. John Shaw Billings Gave Hollerith the inspiration to pursue a mechanical solution to the problem of processing the census data by automated means.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.