Tabulating Machine (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The tabulating machine was an electrical device designed to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting. Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for the 1890 U.S. Census. It spawned a larger class of devices known as unit record equipment and the data processing industry. The term "Super Computing" was first used by the New York World newspaper in 1929 to refer to large custom-built tabulators IBM made for Columbia University.