British Tabulating Machine Company was created in 1902.
The company which became IBM was founded in 1896 as the Tabulating Machine Company. IBM adopted its current name in 1924.
Herman Hollerith founded the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, or CTR. In 1924 CTR became the International Business Machines Corporation.
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)
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