The son of German immigrants, Herman Hollerith (1860–1929) was born in Buffalo, New York—home to a large German-speaking population. Though he wasn’t much of a student in grade school, he was able to ...
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Herman Hollerith. If you’re wondering who the heck the last man is, just know that he definitely deserves to be up there with the other great innovators of the technological ...
This cast-iron object has a metal base that holds, at the top front, a sheet of plastic with holes in it, marked with the categories of the 1890 U.S. Census of population. In back of this is a holder ...