
Ajit Pai @AjitPai
On this date in 1889, @uspto granted Herman Hollerith a patent for a "new and useful Improvement in the Art of Compiling Statistics," an electronic tabulating machine. His company would eventually merge with a few others. Today, we know it as International Business Machines—@IBM. https://t.co/BIM0IJcLPS — PolitiTweet.org