Punched card sorter
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A punched card sorter is a machine for sorting decks of punched cards.
IBM 080 Card Sorter
IBM 082 Card Sorter
Reader brush on an IBM 83 card sorter
Replica of Hollerith tabulating machine with sorting box, circa 1890. The "sorting box" was an adjunct to, and controlled by, the tabulator. The "sorter", an independent machine, was a later development.
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,
Punched card sorter
…Original census sorting box, 1890, manual. Sorting cards became an issue during the 1900 agricultural census, so Herman Hollerith's company developed the 1901 Hollerith Automatic Horizontal Sorter, a sorter with horizontal pockets. In 1908, he designed the more compact Hollerith…
Hollerith c. 1888
Hollerith punched card
Hollerith's grave at Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown in Washington, D.C.