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 ...
Herman Hollerith was born in Buffalo, New York on February 29th, 1860. So today is the closest we come to the 166th anniversary of his birth. An engineer and inventor, he devised a highly efficient ...
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 ...