International Business Machines Corporation, doing business as IBM, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is a public
IBM CHQ in Armonk, New York, in 2014
NACA researchers using an IBM type 704 electronic data processing machine in 1957
An IBM System/360 in use at the University of Michigan c. 1969
IBM guidance computer hardware for the Saturn V Instrument Unit
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.
IBM
…for 29 consecutive years, from 1993 to 2021, it held the record for most annual U.S. patents generated by a business. IBM was founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), a holding company of manufacturers of record-keeping and measuring systems. It was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924 and soon…
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.