Particularly in the United States, where skilled clerks were in short supply, executives encouraged the development and use of office equipment such as typewriters, adding machines, and tabulating ...

Booth struck a deal with Bird's employer, the British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM), to trade his Automatic Purpose Electronic Computer (APEC) design for punch-card machinery, which he needed ...

It was so successful that Hollerith later formed the Tabulating Machine Company and sold his machines throughout the world for a variety of accounting functions. In 1911, his company merged with ...

Particularly in the United States, where skilled clerks were in short supply, executives encouraged the development and use of office equipment such as typewriters, adding machines, and tabulating ...