Thomas J. Watson, Sr., joins the Computing Tabulating Recording Co.
(C-T-R) as general manager. The next year Watson is elected president of
the company.
Use of accounting machines begins to spread. The accounting product line
includes the mechanical key punch, the hand-operated gang punch, the
vertical sorter, and the tabulator. Customers include railroads,
chemical companies, utilities and life insurance companies.
C-T-R's Endicott, New York, plant produces time-recording equipment; the
Dayton, Ohio, plant makes scales; and the Washington, D.C. facility
makes keypunch cards.
The company hires its first disabled employee, 59 years before the
passage of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and 76 years before the
Americans with Disabilities Act.
