Title
Hollerith data machine in an office at the Edgar Allen Steel Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Artist: Michael Walters
Caption
Hollerith data machine in an office at the Edgar Allen Steel Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Herman Hollerith was born in 1860 of German parentage and developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards in order to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the founder of the company that became IBM and the early machines were used as early as 1890 for the US census.
Date
2009
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Worldwide Photography
Reference
HRM19D71_493
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
50,1Mb (1,3Mb) / 12,3in x 15,9in / 3681 x 4758 (300dpi)