Later that year, he divided the patent into two patents. The device described in the patent made use of tape rather than cards, but the patent claims were broad enough to cover either case. Later that year he filed his first punched card patent application. In 1884 he resigned from the Patent Office and started his own business as an “Expert and Solicitor of Patents.” He began conducting experiments during his spare time while teaching for one year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and then while an assistant examiner in the U.S. census, Hollerith considered many alternatives, including the use of paper tape and cards with holes punched in them to store information. Billings, who was a physician with interest in statistical information about public health issues, generously provided important suggestions and encouragement.ĭuring the years before the next U.S. Billings, to spend some of his time studying the operation of the census and to seek ways to mechanize it. Walker, and by a senior member of the technical team, Dr. Census of 1880, Hollerith was encouraged by the superintendent of the Census, Francis A. Constitution that Congress conduct an enumeration of the population every ten years in order to help ensure fair representation and taxation among the states of the United States. This task had been added to the relatively simple mandate of the U.S. Congress to acquire information on the country’s economy to help in making policy decisions. Census Bureau respond to the desire of the U.S. He and several other technically trained persons had been hired to help the U.S. Soon after graduating in 1879, at age nineteen from the Columbia School of Mines, Herman Hollerith was hired to work for the U.S. Through continual improvements, first by Hollerith and then by many others, punched card equipment created and expanded the worldwide information processing industry and continued to play a significant role in that industry for more than two decades after the first commercial electronic computers were installed in the early 1950s. Punched card tabulating equipment, invented and developed by Herman Hollerith to process data from the United States Census of 1890, was the first mechanized means for compiling and analyzing statistical information. 11.1 References of Historical Significance.
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