That company eventually became IBM.
Herman Hollerith is the founder of The Tabulating Machine Company in 1896 which later became the International Business Machine in 1924, after a few mergers.
Herman Hollerith founded the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, or CTR. In 1924 CTR became the International Business Machines Corporation.
British Tabulating Machine Company was created in 1902.
Computing-Tablulating-Recording Company was formed in 1911. In 1924 it was renamed to International Business Machines. Today it's known as IBM. === ===
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IBM was originally called CTR (Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation) before changing to IBM in 1924. The original name comes from the 3 previous companies that were merged together in 1911 to form CTR. These companies were the International Time Recording company, the Tabulating Machine company, and the Computing Scale Corporation.
The mother of Hollerith's machines was the Tabulating Machine Company, which was later renamed to the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and eventually became IBM. These machines were used for data processing and information storage, revolutionizing the way businesses and governments handled large amounts of information.
Founded 1891 as the Tabulating Machines Company by Herman Hollerith It officially became IBM after mergers in 1924.
IBM was not actually founded in 1896. One of the three companies merged to create CTR (IBM's former name) was founded in 1896.That company was the Tabulating Machine Company. It was created by Herman Hollerith after his invention helped the U.S. Census Bureau in 1890 to tabulate the census results in one year versus the 8 years it took in 1880.Together with the International Time Recording company and Computing Scale Corporation, the Tabulating Machine company merged to form the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR for short). It held this name until 1924 when the acting president, Thomas Watson Sr., changed the name to IBM (International Business Machines).Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR)
The company which became IBM was founded in 1896 as the Tabulating Machine Company. IBM adopted its current name in 1924.
Herman Hollerith was likely the person you're looking for. He invented and was awarded patents for a series of machines that used punched holes for a method of recording data. The true ancestor of our punch cards we think of today such as the IBM type 80. Hope this helps!
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