Herman Hollerith
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Herman Hollerith was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing information and, later,
Hollerith c. 1888
Replica of Hollerith tabulating machine with sorting box, c. 1890. The "sorting box" was an adjunct to, and controlled by, the tabulator. The "sorter", an independent machine, was a later development.
Hollerith punched card
Hollerith's grave at Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown in Washington, D.C.
The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was a holding company of manufacturers of record-keeping and measuring systems. The company would ultimately become known as IBM.
Herman Hollerith
…concept dominated that landscape for nearly a century. Hollerith founded a company that was amalgamated in 1911 with several other companies to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. In 1924, the company was renamed "International Business Machines" (IBM) and became one of the largest and most successful companies of the 20th…
Front cover of a January 1920 sales catalog showing clocks, scales and tabulating equipment)
Hollerith's plant in 1893
Charles Ranlett Flint had already created several successful consolidations, including creating industrial giant U.S. Rubber.
Thomas J. Watson