International Time Recording Company
In 1894, J. L. Willard and F. A. Frick of Rochester, New York, formed the Willard & Frick Manufacturing Company as the first time card recorder company in the world.[13]
In 1900 George W. Fairchild, an investor and director of the Bundy Manufacturing Company, led the formation in Jersey City, New Jersey,[14] of the International Time Recording Company (ITR) which consolidated the time recording business of Bundy with the Willard & Frick Manufacturing Co.[15] In 1901, the company was re-incorporated in Binghamton, New York. The same year, it acquired the Chicago Time-Register Co., the first autograph time recorder company in the world and a manufacturer of key, card, and autograph employee time recorders.[16]
In 1906, ITR relocated to Endicott, New York, where it built a larger factory next to the new building of the Bundy Manufacturing Company. Before the CTR amalgamation, Harlow Bundy would be named ITR's treasurer and general manager.[17]
Dr. Alexander Dey invented the first dial recorder in 1888, and in 1907 ITR acquired the Del Ray Register Company.[18][19] In 1908, ITR acquired the Syracuse Time Recorder Company, a manufacturer of dial recorders.[20]
ITR's 1935 catalog lists various clocks, from industrial timeclocks, recording clocks, and program clocks to ornamental store-front clocks. It also lists the Series 970 Intercommunicating Telephone System.[21] Since 1907 or earlier ITR had published a magazine, Time, for employees and customers; in 1935 IBM renamed the magazine Think.[22]
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