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Los Angeles: American Film Institute
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Los Angeles: American Film Institute
The newest edition of The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, the long-awaited Film Beginnings, 1893-1910, was launched in the Spring of 1995 by the AFI National Center for Film and Video Preservation. Film Beginnings is the fifth volume in the AFI Catalog project to research the U.S. national filmography.
Published by The Scarecrow Press, the two-book set contains information on the 17,752 titles produced or distributed in the United States during the earliest years of American filmmaking. As part of the AFI's ...
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[ * After the 1880 census results took eight years to tabulate, a U.S. Census Bureau employee named Herman Hollerith went to work inventing the first punchcard-driven adding machine. It worked like a charm, reducing the tabulation time for the 1890 census to a mere six weeks.... ]
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze
; * After the 1880 census results took eight years to tabulate, a U.S. Census Bureau employee named Herman Hollerith went to work inventing the first punchcard-driven adding machine. It worked like a charm, reducing the tabulation time for...
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Stand up and be counted. (an analysis of the technology supporting the 1990 US Census) (includes a related article on the first attempt to automate the census and Herman Hollerith's electric tabulating machine)
Magazine article from: Computer Weekly
; STAND UP AND BE COUNTED Ever since Caesar Augustus set out to tax the world 2,000 years ago, conducting national censuses has been an administrative nightmare. Last month, the US started the mammoth task of counting its 250 million huddled masses -- around 10% of the world's population. The US
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FARM WAS NOT HOLLERITH'S ONLY SIGNIFICANT CREATION.(GRACIOUS LIVING)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; HERMAN HOLLERITH, who brought his family to summer at...London's Economist magazine identified Hollerith's punch-card tabulating machine...technology in the past 1,000 years. Hollerith has been hailed as the father of information...
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Saint Paul's Welcomed Bishop-Elect Hollerith
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service
; ...release: Bishop-Elect, Reverend Herman Hollerith, IV, was extended a congratulatory...of Trustees. "Bishop-Elect Hollerith was very receptive. He provided...future endeavors." Bishop-Elect Hollerith was extremely enthused to see...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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ESSENCE OF TECHNOLOGY DANGEROUS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...saw, through the spaces between people's heads, a computer exhibit. It was an old Hollerith machine. The Hollerith was the invention of Herman Hollerith, the turn-of-the-century statistician and census-taker. Hollerith combined...
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Two Georgetown mansions for sale.(Metropolitan Times)(Brief Encounters)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...Holleriths, has owned it ever since. Herman Hollerith was a genius inventor who came...to tabulate. In an MIT lab, Hollerith came up with a better way to summarize...million, according to Richard Hollerith Jr., Herman's grandson. Hollerith...
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Kenneth Eaton, Veterans Board Chairman, Dies
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Cunningham of McLean; and five grandchildren. HERMAN HOLLERITH III Accountant Herman Hollerith III, 67, a retired Exxon Co. accountant...Alexandria. He had Parkinson's disease. Mr. Hollerith, who lived in Alexandria, was born in Philadelphia...
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INSIDER'S GUIDE; Virtually Forgotten
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...an obscure bureaucrat named Herman Hollerith "perfected his pioneering punch...building. The Census Bureau hired Hollerith as a statistician in 1879 to help...million people to 63 million. Hollerith developed and patented his "Hollerith...
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Automatización de la muerte.(TT: Automation of death.)(Reseña)
Magazine article from: Net: El Medio de las Telecomunicaciones
; ...Tabulating Machine Company, de Herman Hollerith. Las otras tres compaas eran...carnes. De ellas, la empresa de Hollerith era la ms grande e importante...comparar las personalidades de Herman Hollerith y de Charles Flint, encuentra...
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Nazi Nexus by Edwin Black
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...government census employee named Herman Hollerith invented the punch card system...years as previously required. Hollerith then stole the government's...century, the names IBM and "Hollerith" were synonymous and generic...
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