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     1901 to 1919

This page highlights ICT industry developments from 1901 to 1919.

Context is provided by the broader media and communications timeline elsewhere on this site.

    1901

• first electric typewriter, the Blickensderfer

    1911

• Flint arranges merger of Tabulating Machine Company, Computing Scale Company and International Time Recording Company to form Computing Tabulating Recording Company (CTR) (later renamed IBM)
• James Powers forms Powers Accounting Machine Company, precursor of Sperry Rand

    1914

• Northern Electric Manufacturing merges with Imperial Wire & Cable Company to form Northern Electric Company in Canada (44% held by Western Electric, 50% by Bell Canada)

    1915

• Powers introduces printing tabulator

    1917

• Capek uses term "robot" in Opilek

    1918

• English Electric Co formed through merger of Dick Kerr, Willans & Robinson, Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing and UK Siemens Bros

    1919

• Eccles & Jordan's flip-flop circuit
• Hinckley-Tandy Leather (later Tandy Electronics) founded
• Siemens & Halske, AEG and Auer found Osram
  
  

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