So he told them his scheme for a Saviour Machine…
This date of January the 8th celebrates an historical event that, indirectly, brought us all here today. For it was on this day in 1889 that Dr. Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electric tabulating machine. The machine tallied numbers fed to it on punch cards. The system was first used extensively to compile statistics for the eleventh federal census in 1890. The cost was $5 million below the usual forecasts and saved more than two years’ counting time.
“So what?” you may ask. Well, thanks to his extraordinary success with the electronic counting machine, in 1896 Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company, forerunner of Computer Tabulating Recording Company (CTR). He served as a consulting engineer with CTR until retiring in 1921. In 1924 CTR changed its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). The rest, as they say, truly is history. Click on the image above for more.
Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)