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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 .
1928: The Tabulating Machine Company's first tabulator that could subtract, the Hollerith Type IV tabulator. [34] The Tabulating Machine Company begins its collaboration with Benjamin Wood, Wallace John Eckert and the Statistical Bureau at Columbia University. [35] [8]: 67 The Tabulating Machine Company's 80-column card introduced.
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.
The citizen initiatives in South Dakota to prohibit tabulating machines are set to appear on Tuesday's primary ballot in Gregory, Haakon and Tripp counties. Similar petition efforts for future ...
Election experts say counting ballots by hand isn't as accurate as machines tabulating the votes. The measures might not be the only ones put to a vote in South Dakota. Citizens in dozens of other ...
The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) [1] was a holding company of manufacturers of record-keeping and measuring systems; it was subsequently known as IBM.. In 1911, the financier and noted trust organizer Charles R. Flint, called the "Father of Trusts", amalgamated (via stock acquisition) four companies: Bundy Manufacturing Company, International Time Recording Company, the ...
The IBM 407 Accounting Machine, introduced in 1949, was one of a long line of IBM tabulating machines dating back to the days of Herman Hollerith. It had a card reader and printer; a summary punch could be attached. Processing was directed by a control panel.
A Nov. 5 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a video of multiple people adjusting and re-arranging what appear to be vote-tabulating machines. “BREAKING: FIVE Trump-leaning counties ...