{"id":1817,"date":"2026-01-08T00:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:22:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:22:50","slug":"herman-hollerith-patented-his-tabulating-machine-in-1889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1817","title":{"rendered":"Herman Hollerith Patented his Tabulating Machine in 1889"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11606\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11606\" class=\"wp-image-11606\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Herman-Hollerith-300x254.gif\" alt=\"Herman Hollerith's 1890 Tabulating Machine\" width=\"255\" height=\"216\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herman Hollerith&#8217;s 1890 Tabulating Machine<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Herman Hollerith patented his tabulating machine in 1889<\/strong>. This machine, instrumental in calculating census data, was a precursor to today&#8217;s computers. Children can view his patent at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US395782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US395782<\/a>. Idea: Children could make a timeline of inventions important to the development of the computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herman Hollerith patented his tabulating machine in 1889. This machine, instrumental in calculating census data, was a precursor to today&#8217;s computers. Children can view his patent at:\u00a0http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US395782. Idea: Children could make a timeline of inventions important to the development of the computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4888,4887,4885,4882,4886],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4888","tag-census-data","tag-herman-hollerith","tag-january-8","tag-tabulating-machine","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20614,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/20614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}