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General Hollerith assures us through Miss Cardew that it is of the utmost importance.

General Hollerith had been spoiled by having neatly packaged dynamite and TNT to play with too long.

Gus Feinblatt lifted General Hollerith out of his gocart and heaved him up in the cab of a red gravel truck.

Even punching cumbersome codes into Hollerith columns seemed small improvement.

Marconi wireless telegraph, and the Hollerith tabulator were revolutionary.

No living eye would ever again see that wonderful battery of almost human Hollerith analyzers and the five thousand million punched cards holding all that could be recorded of each man, woman and child on the planet.

No living eye would ever again see that wonderful battery of almost human Hollerith analyzers and the five thousand million punched cards holding all that could be recorded on each man, woman and child on the planet.

The Army had begun to use machines for cryptology in 1936, when Hollerith tabulating machines facilitated the compiling of codes.

They had stayed a while with Howard Hollerith in Greenville and they had stayed a while with Billy Daikin in Clarksdale and they had stayed a while with other people in other places but after a certain kind of evening they would always move to a motel.

The winner of the competition was Herman Hollerith, whose electrically powered calculator was a monster device that not only processed numbers but displayed the progress of the process on large clocks for all to see.

By 1929, when Hollerith died, his company had become the automation conglomerate, IBM.