The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was a holding company of manufacturers of record-keeping and measuring systems. The company would ultimately become known as IBM.
Front cover of a January 1920 sales catalog showing clocks, scales and tabulating equipment)
Hollerith's plant in 1893
Charles Ranlett Flint had already created several successful consolidations, including creating industrial giant U.S. Rubber.
Thomas J. Watson
George Winthrop Fairchild
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George Winthrop Fairchild, was a six-term Republican U.S. representative from New York. Prior to joining congress, he was a businessman and investor, best known as the chairman of the Computing-Tabula
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
…and F. A. Frick of Rochester, New York, formed the Willard & Frick Manufacturing Company as the first time card recorder company in the world. In 1900 George W. Fairchild, an investor and director of the Bundy Manufacturing Company, led the formation in Jersey City, New Jersey, of the International Time Recording Company…
George Winthrop Fairchild