When was the company, the Tabulating Machine Company which later joined with three others to form the Computing Tabulating Recording Company, first launched?
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was renamed International Business Machines (IBM) in 1924. The individual companies continued to operate using their established names until the businesses were integrated in 1933 and the holding company eliminated. Herman Hollerith initially did business under his own name, as "The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System", specializing in punched card data processing equipment. In 1896 he incorporated as the "Tabulating Machine Company" and in 1905 reincorporated as "The Tabulating Machine Company". Hollerith's series of patents on tabulating machine technology, first applied for in 1884, drew on his work at the U.S. Census Bureau from 1879 to 82. Hollerith was initially trying
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company qualification on the subsidiary companies. The holding company itself disappeared in 1933 after most of the subsidiaries had been merged into one company, IBM. Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) was a holding company of manufacturers of record-keeping and measuring systems subsequently known as IBM. In 1911 financier and noted trust organizer, "Father of Trusts", Charles R. Flint amalgamated (via stock acquisition) four companies: The Tabulating Machine Company, International Time Recording Company, Computing Scale Company of America, and the Bundy Manufacturing Company; creating a fifth company - The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. CTR was located in Endicott, New York The amalgamated companies