IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. During the 1880s the engineer Herman ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From the early 20th century into the ...

Herman Hollerith invents the Tabulating Machine in the late 1880s. Inspired by railway ticket punchers, Hollerith develops a process where punched cards are read to produce an electric circuit of ...