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 and Simplex Time Recorder Company.
Willard Legrand Bundy was born on 8 December 1845[1] in Otsego, New York, and died on 19 January 1907.
[2] His family later moved to Auburn, New York, where he worked as a jeweler and invented a time clock in 1888.
1888: Willard L. Bundy invents the key recorder, applies it to time keeping for his employees.
The Willard and Frick Manufacturing Company is organized to market Cooper's invention under the trade name "Rochester".
[14][15][16] 1896: George Winthrop Fairchild joins Bundy Manufacturing Company as both an investor and director.
[20][21][22] 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.
[25] 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.
[1] 1908: ITR acquires the Syracuse Time Recording Co.[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".
IBM dispenses with the holding company structure, offices are consolidated and the subsidiary names, "Bundy", etc.