International Business Machines - IBM
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This is an antique cheese wheel cutter from the early 1900's. The cutter was made by The Computing Scale Company of Dayton, Ohio. This piece would have been used by a general store or market to accurately measure and cut cheese accordingly
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In 1896 Herman Hollerith incorporated The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System as the Tabulating Machine Company. In 1900, he acquired the Dayton Moneyweight Scale Company which made the cheese slicer.
In 1911, Charles F. Flint, a noted trust organizer, engineered the merger of Hollerith's Tabulating Machine Company with two others - Computing Scale Company of America and International Time Recording Company. |
The combined Computing- Tabulating- Recording Company (C-T-R) manufactured and sold machinery ranging from commercial scales and industrial time recorders to meat and cheese slicers, along with tabulators and punched cards.
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