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The Bundy Manufacturing Company was a 19th-century American manufacturer of timekeeping devices that went through a series of mergers, eventually becoming part of International Business Machines then Simplex Time Recorder Company. The company was founded by the Bundy Brothers. Willard Legrand Bundy was born on 8 December 1845〔(Bundy Museum of History and Art )〕 in Otsego, New York, and died on 19 January 1907.〔(Rootsweb )〕 His family later moved to Auburn, New York, where he worked as a jeweler and invented a time clock in 1888.〔 He later obtained patents of many mechanical devices. Harlow E. Bundy was born in 1856 in Auburn, New York. He was a graduate of Hamilton College. He died in 1916 in Pasadena, California, after retiring from business in 1915. == Timeline == unknown: founding of Accurate Time Stamp Company. unknown: founding of Chicago Time Register Company. unknown: founding of Syracuse Time Recording Company. 1888: Willard L. Bundy invents the key recorder, applies it to time keeping for his employees.〔Engelbourg (1954) p.27〕 1888: Dr. Alexander Dey invents the dial time recorder.〔American Machinist LXXXI No.12 (June 16, 1937) 481〕 1889: Harlow E. Bundy and Willard L. Bundy incorporate the Bundy Manufacturing Company in Binghamton, New York, the first time recording company in the world, to produce time clocks.〔Seward, William Foote (1924) ''Binghampton and Broome County, New York: A History'', Lewis Historical Publishing, II, 435〕〔An Accurate Automatic Time Recorder, Scientific American v.66.25 (June 18, 1892) p.386〕 The Bundy Manufacturing Company begins with just eight employees and $150,000 capital.〔Aswad (2005) p.11〕 1890: The Accurate Time Stamp Company (later renamed the Standard Time Stamp Company)- A Complete Automatic Time-Dating Stamp.〔(The Manufacturer and Builder v22.1 March 1890 )〕〔(The Office, Volumes 10-12, Sept 1892 )〕 1893: Alexander Dey and relatives form the Dey Patents Co., later renamed the Dey Time Register Co of Syracuse, New York.〔Engelbourg (1954) p.35-36〕〔Kane, Joseph N., ''Famous First Facts'', Wilson, 1950, p.457〕〔(International Dial Time Recorder Clock )〕 1894: Daniel M. Cooper patents the first card time recorder. The Willard and Frick Manufacturing Company is organized to market Cooper's invention under the trade name "Rochester".〔"Machine Methods of Accounting, Section 1, IBM, 1930s〕〔"The 'Rochester' System of Time Recording", Scientific American, v.79.26 (December 24, 1898) p.404〕 1896: George Winthrop Fairchild joins Bundy Manufacturing Company as both an investor and director. 1898: About 9,000 Bundy Time Recorders have been produced; advertised as solving "vexatious questions of recording employee time".〔Aswad (2005) p.12〕 1898: ''A New Time Register'', manufactured by the Chicago Time Register Company.〔(The Railway Age, Oct 7, 1898, p.743 )〕 1899: Bundy Manufacturing Company acquires the Standard Time Stamp Company, manufacturers of a timestamp and a card recorder.〔Engelbourg (1954) p.33〕〔(Engineering Magazine v.16 Oct 1898-Mar 1899 p.43 (Google p.1095) )〕〔(Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia: The Accurate Time Stamp Company change of name to The Standard Time Stamp Company, Feb 5, 1894 )〕 1900: The International Time Recording Company of New Jersey is formed, a merger of the time recording business of Bundy Mfg., its subsidiary the Standard Time Stamp Company, and Willard and Frick Mfg.〔Moody's Manual of Corporation Securities, 1904, p.1439〕〔Sobel, Robert (1981) ''IBM: Colossus in Transition'', Times Books, p.11〕 Bundy Mfg. continues to manufacture other products, such as the Bundy Adding Machine (see 1905, 1910). 1901: ITR re-incorporates as a New York company.〔(Commercial and Financial Chronicle, LXXXIV, No. 2171 (February 2, 1907), 274 )〕 1901: ITR acquires the Chicago Time Register Company, the first, "Merritt", autograph time recorder company in the world, and a manufacturer of key, card and autograph employee time recorders.〔Engelbourg (1954) p.35〕〔(IBM Archives: 1901 ).〕 1903: The Bundy brothers have a falling-out, Willard L. Bundy moves to Syracuse where he and his son form the W.H. Bundy Recording Company - manufacturing a clock similar to the ITR manufactured clocks.〔Oechsle & Boyce〕 1905: The Bundy Adding Machine is patented (advertised 1904-06)〔(Early Office Museum )〕〔(Binghamton Press September 14, 1904 ''New Adding Machine of Bundy Company'' )〕〔(Binghamton Press November 26, 1904 ''Description of Great Machine'' )〕 1906: The Bundy Manufacturing Company and ITR relocate from Binghamton, New York to side-by-side locations in Endicott, New York.〔Engelbourg (1954) p.40〕〔This photo, labeled (''Bundy Adding Machine Co. and International Time Recording Co., Endicott, N.Y.'' ) shows the two companies side-by-side in Endicott. ''Bundy Adding Machine Co.'' is an error, it is the ''Bundy Manufacturing Company'' whose product is an adding machine.〕 1907: ITR acquires Dey Time Register Co. Manufacturing of dial time recorders moved from Syracuse to Endicott.〔''Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities'', 1921, I, 1298〕 ITR's motto is ''Safeguarding the Minute''.〔Aswad (2005) p.18〕 1907: Willard L. Bundy dies.〔(Biography )〕 1908: ITR acquires the Syracuse Time Recording Co.〔Engelbourg (1954) p.36〕 1910: "New York State Men: Biographic Studies and Character Portraits", Frederick S. Hills (ed), states that Harlow Bundy still holds the positions of treasurer and general manager of Bundy Mfg "now being engaged in the manufacture of adding machines, the time recording business having been merged in the International Time Recording Co., of Endicott, in 1901". 1910/11: Willard L. Bundy's son forms the W.H. Bundy Time Card Printing Co and is listed as the vice president of the Monitor Time Clock Company, Syracuse New York.〔 1911: The Bundy Manufacturing Company, ITR, the Tabulating Machine Company and the Computing Scale Company merge to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR).〔Moody's Manual of Railroad and Corporation Securities, 1912, p.3044〕 Fairchild is president of the new company and will later be chairman. Harlow Bundy is vice-president. CTR is a holding company; the individual companies will continue to operate using their established names.〔For example, the last page of (The Inventory Simplified ), published in 1923, identifies the publisher as "The Tabulating Machine Company - Division of - International Business Machines Corporation.〕 1916: W.H. Bundy/Monitor firm sold to Simplex Time Recorder Company.〔 1924: CTR renamed International Business Machines 1933. IBM dispenses with the holding company structure, offices are consolidated and the subsidiary names, "Bundy", etc. are removed.〔New York Times, July 15, 1933 - Units of Business Machines Join Parent Company〕 1935: Since 1907 or earlier ITR (now the IBM Time Equipment Division) had published a magazine, ''Time'', for employees and customers that IBM now renames THINK.〔 1958: IBM and its predecessor companies made clocks and other time recording products for 70 years, culminating in the 1958 sale of the domestic IBM Time Equipment Division to Simplex Time Recorder Company.〔(IBM Archives: Text of IBM's October 24, 1958 press release ) announcing the sale of its time equipment (clocks, et al.) business to Simplex Time Recorder Company.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bundy Manufacturing Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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