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Hollerith, Herman
 
SYLLABICATION:Hol·ler·ith
PRONUNCIATION:  hl-rth
DATES:1860–1929
American inventor who created a system of recording and retrieving information on punched cards (1880) and founded the company that became IBM (1924).
 
 
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