The punched card tabulator

> During a short stint compiling manufacturing statistics for the US Census Office, Herman Hollerith grew frustrated with the organization’s manual process of counting questionnaires.

Go out to the world and do something, however boring it may seem. You've got more chances of having a bright ideia than if you stay home just thinking.

	▲	Bluestein an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed. I am fascinated by the fact, also, that Hollerith was a mining engineer. Used to thinking in a constructive, technical fashion in one complex domain, and transfered skills to a new, nascent, one.-

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a3w 18 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust not mentioned? Back then, Punched cards for Nazis. Nowadays, "punch a nazi" is a trending meme.