Question

Write a short note on Herman Hollerith.

Answer 1

DR. GERMAN HOLLERITH:

• He is the founder/Inventor of tabulating machine.

• He is a statistician, he belongs to U.S.A (United States of America).

• He is a America statistician.

• The input he gave was by the help of the punched cards.

• These punched cards are used to record or store the information.

• Recording and storing is the storing of some sort of data.

• Example: Saving files, protecting it and storing it.

Answer 2

Herman Hollerith:

• He is an American statistician and inventor who invented the  electromechanical tabulating machine.
• The invention of the punched card is the beginning of the semiautomatic data processing era.
• He was the first to open the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company which was later renamed as International Business Machines which is famously called as IBM.
• He was one of the important people in the development of data processing.