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IBM Timeline

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  • Founding

    Founding
    IBM was founded in Endicott, New York, by a man named Charles Ranlett Flint. It was called CTR short for Computing Tabulating-Recording Company.

  • Founding Details

    Founding Details
    IBM originated as four seperate companies all in the technology industry which was on the rise in the late 19th century. The four owners of the companies were Julius E. Pitrat, Alexander Dey, Herman Hollerith and Willard Bundy. The four companies were combined by Charles Ranlett Flint to form CTR.

  • First Products

    First Products
    IBM created machines for customers to either rent, or buy. Their machinery ranged from

  • IBM in World War 2

    IBM in World War 2
    IBM helped a lot in the second world war. They produced the Browning Automatic Rifle, the best automatic rifle yet. They also produced the M1 Carbine an automatic carbine gun. Lastly, they provided lots of jobs for people during the war.

  • IBM in the Middle East

    IBM in the Middle East
    IBM opened their first offices in the Middle East. First they opened an office in Bahrain, a country located west of Saudi Arabia and north of Quatar, then they opened an office in Saudi Arabia to help the Arabian-American Oil Company that would eventually turn into Saudi Buisness Machines. IBM has been in the Middle East ever since.

  • IBM in Space

    IBM in Space
    IBM employees and computers helped NASA do lots of things in space. They helped track Mercury astronauts in 1963, they helped with the Gemini in 1965, and the Lunar mission in 1969.

  • Computer

    Computer
    IBM developed their first computer, the IBM Personal Computer, or IBM PC. It was developed by a team of engineers led by Don Estridge in Boca Raton, Florida.

  • IBM sells PC

    IBM sells PC
    IBM sold their personal computer buisness to Lenovo and they bought Micromuse. Micromuse was a network management software, and it partered with Psytechnics.

  • Secure Blue

    Secure Blue
    In 2006, IBM launched Secure Blue, a low-cost hardware design for data encryption that can be built into a microprocessor.

  • Recent Awards

    Recent Awards
    Later in 2009, IBM's Blue Gene supercomputing program was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by U.S. President Barack Obama. In 2011, IBM gained worldwide attention for its artificial intelligence program Watson, which was exhibited on Jeopardy! where it won against game-show champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. As of 2012, IBM had been the top annual recipient of U.S. patents for 20 consecutive years.