Semyon Nikolaevich Korsakov was a Russian government official, noted both as a homeopath and an inventor who was involved with an early version of information technology.
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11 Facts About Semyon Korsakov
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Semyon Korsakov was married to Sofia Mordvinova and they had four daughters and six sons, one of whom, Mikhail Semyonovich, became famous in his own right as governor-general of Eastern Siberia and was the namesake of the town of Korsakov in Sakhalin Oblast and several Russian geological features.
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From 1812 to 1814, Semyon Korsakov took part in the Napoleonic Wars with the Russian Army.
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Semyon Korsakov later was to serve as an official in the statistics department of the Russian Police Ministry in St Petersburg.
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Semyon Korsakov was a recipient of the Order of St Anna and the Order of St Vladimir.
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Semyon Korsakov died in 1853 in the village of Tarusovo, then part of the Moscow Province.
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Semyon Korsakov announced his new method in September 1832, and rather than seeking patents offered the machines for public use.
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Semyon Korsakov was reputedly the first to use the cards for information storage.
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Semyon Korsakov presented his ideas to the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, but their experts rejected his application, failing to see the potential of mechanizing searches through large stores of information.
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Semyon Korsakov's machines were largely forgotten until after the Second World War, when a revival of historical interest resulted in the publication of several documents from the academy's archives relating to Korsakov's machines and the uncovering of a book about them written by Korsakov himself.
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