The 1880 census had taken almost ten years to tabulate ... A resolution to this problem was presented by Herman Hollerith. He developed a machine that could read data from paper cards.

The processing of the 1880 census was not completed until ... to a young mechanical engineer assisting with the census, Herman Hollerith, a recent graduate of the Columbia School of Mines.

“Hollerith had actually worked on the census of 1880, and he was really intrigued by the notion of trying to automate the process,” says Peggy Kidwell, curator of computing history at the ...

Statistician and inventor Herman Hollerith became known as the father of modern automatic computation for his electric tabulating system, which revolutionized the US census. He was recruited to work ...

The processing of the 1880 census was not completed until ... to a young mechanical engineer assisting with the census, Herman Hollerith, a recent graduate of the Columbia School of Mines.

Trowbridge, invited Hollerith to join him in Washington, DC. Trowbridge had been appointed as a chief special agent for the 10th (1880) US Census and was responsible for the Report on Power and ...

Hollerith undertook the project under contract from the Census Bureau, which had taken eight years to tabulate its 1880 census, making it effectively out of date before it appeared. The problem ...

Herman Hollerith had designed the machine but needed ... Getty Images Yet with the 1880 census, the bureaucrats had swallowed more data than they could digest. The census had been expanding ...

Here is one example, from the 1880 form, which shows the census ... To general amazement, a twenty-eight-year-old former census employee named Herman Hollerith won easily, with an invention ...

1890: The U.S. Census Bureau uses a tabulating machine for the first time. Freed of the laborious process of hand-sorting its data, the bureau is able to produce a complete census within two years.