NOUN
- United States inventor who invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards (1860-1929)
How To Use Hollerith In A Sentence
- In America, Hollerith, working on census returns, developed a machine using electric current and capable of analysing returns at speed.
- I show them replica of original Hollerith machine for census, then early IBM keypunch, and a few punch cards, noting that I used to punch whole decks of them. Experience
- It is clear that the Hollerith system was used by the entire Nazi war machine, in contexts ranging from the coordination troop transports, to Luftwaffe raids, to slave labor.
- Hollerith designed punches specially made for his system, the Hollerith Electric Tabulating System.
