Industrial AgeTechnology Punched-card tabulating machine 1890Major Herman Hollerith's machines count the U.S. census; his company later becomes IBM. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Weaving loom → Jacquard loom → Punched-card tabulating machine Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentbritannica.comHerman Hollerith (Britannica) ↗Editor's pickBookGeoffrey D. AustrianHerman Hollerith: Forgotten Giant of Information Processing ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeHollerith tabulating machine 1890 census ↗Editor's pick