group smith: Charles R. Flint (1925)
After the coup, which had a widespread impact on the result of the German-Americans founded in 1896, the Tabulating Machine Company for the commercial exploitation of its patents. The mass distribution but hesitated. Hollerith lacked the money. This was because he had organized the distribution amateurish. By 1911 his company had not a single vendor. This was the first time the deficiency, still suffering from the many competitors of IBM: the implementation of investments into cash. Hollerith, who had no seller, sold (and his idea) to C. Flint, one of the most outstanding personalities of the time.
Flint Watson created and therefore IBM.
Watson led the company from the provincialism Hollerith shear stamping the center of data processing. However he needed for almost ten years he spent in largely anonymous. Only with the renaming of CTR in 1924 in IBM flashed his name at large.
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