History of Computers - CTR

--Pflam 09:30, 1 September 2009 (CDT)

CTR - The precursor to the modern company known as IBM

Overview

The company called CTR was incorporated in 1911 through a merger of four separate corporations. The most technologically significant of these was the Tabulating Machine Company formed by Herman Hollerith in 1896. The reason it is the most technologically significant was due to Herman Hollerith's invention of the Electronic Tabulating Machine and the punch card. The other companies involved were the Computing Scale corporation, the International Time Recording Company, and the Bundy Manufacturing Company.

This company was formed in order to produce many different products including employee time-keeping systems, weighing scales, automatic meat slicers, and, most importantly, the development of computers and punch card equipment.

These computers and punch cards would be used for all types of work including storing data, inputting information for work to be done in computers, and even operating instruments.

significance

The CTR company is significant because it produced many machines that made things such as the US census, all types of data storage, and some original programming possible. The company CTR became defunct in 1924, when it was replaced by the major computer company IBM. Much of the stuff that was produced by CTR is no longer used today anyways.

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Links

http://futureobservatory.dyndns.org/2013.htm

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/reference/faq_0000001707.html

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_4506VV2015.html