“Using Hollerith’s tabulators, the 1890 census was completed in one year rather than eight. It was the first major use of electrical circuits to process information, and the company that Hollerith founded became in 1924, after a series of mergers and acquisitions, the International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM.”
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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