3M The Birth Of The Computer No 4 - 1889

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This 3M The Birth Of The Computer No 3 - 1850 4 page large format document was produced by 3M.

The focus is on Herman Hollerith who was a German-American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the founder of the company that became IBM.

Thomas J Watson and Wallace J Eckert are also featured

This were kindly donated in the memory of the late Roy Pemberton who had previously owned them

Date : September 1971

Creator : 3M

This exhibit has a reference ID of CH11675. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.