Hollerith Machine

• The Hollerith Machine was created in the late 1880s/early 1890s.
• The invention of the Hollerith Machine was important because it was able to tabulate the US Census 80x faster than the manual system as well as keep track of people in the railway. Later on, companies used the Hollerith Machine was used for business applications. Government agencies were bale to use punch cards to store data from the Hollerith Machine.
• The inventor of minicomputer is Herman Hollerith.
• A fun fact about the Hollerith Mchine is that its foundr Herman Hollerith was the founder of the global company IBM.