Hollerith Tabulating Machine
name: label: maker
content: Hollerith, Herman
notes: label: Description
content: During the 1880s the engineer Herman Hollerith devised a set of machines for compiling data from the United States Census. Hollerith's tabulating system included a punch for entering data about each person onto a blank card, a tabulator for reading the cards and summing up information, and a sorting box for sorting the cards for further analysis. The tabulator is shown at the center in the photograph.
label: Description
content: Hollerith's tabulating system won a gold medal at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, and was used successfully the next year to count the results of the 1890 Census. His inventions formed the starting point of a company that would become IBM.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: web subject
content: Census
label: web subject
content: Mathematics
label: related event
content: United States Census, 1890
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Tabulating Equipment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of International Business Machines Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.312895
label: accession number
content: 171118
label: catalog number
content: 312895
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tabulating machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: oak (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 55 in x 39 1/2 in x 32 in; 139.7 cm x 100.33 cm x 81.28 cm