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... Hollerith is the ancestor of its practical side . Hollerith , born nearly seventy years after Babbage , was an engineer who in 1879 left the Columbia School of Mines for a job in the United States Census Bureau . The bureau at the time ...
... Hollerith is the ancestor of its practical side . Hollerith , born nearly seventy years after Babbage , was an engineer who in 1879 left the Columbia School of Mines for a job in the United States Census Bureau . The bureau at the time ...
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... Hollerith saw that a hole in a card could represent one of any number of characteristics - sex , marital status , number of children , and so on . All he needed was a way to transfer information from census returns to punch cards , then ...
... Hollerith saw that a hole in a card could represent one of any number of characteristics - sex , marital status , number of children , and so on . All he needed was a way to transfer information from census returns to punch cards , then ...
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... Hollerith's system . Hollerith , shut out of further work for the census , filed a lawsuit in 1910 charging the bureau with patent infringement . Nothing came of the lawsuit . Still , it was a historic skir- mish . By then Hollerith had ...
... Hollerith's system . Hollerith , shut out of further work for the census , filed a lawsuit in 1910 charging the bureau with patent infringement . Nothing came of the lawsuit . Still , it was a historic skir- mish . By then Hollerith had ...
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