... invented the first commercial calculator, a hand powered adding machine. A step towards automated computing was the development of punched cards, which were first used successfully with computers in the 1890 census. Herman Hollerith of MIT developed a system that could read information that had been punched into the cards automatically, without human help. Because of this, reading errors were dramatically reduced, work flow increased ... ...

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