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C-T-R customers In the years following World War I, C-T-R's engineering and research staff developed new and improved mechanisms to meet the broadening needs of its customers. In 1920, the company introduced the lock autograph recorder, the first complete school time control system, and launched the Electric Accounting Machine. In 1921, the company acquired the business of the Ticketograph Company of Chicago, and certain patents and other property of the Peirce Accounting Machine Company. The Carroll Rotary Press was developed in 1924 to produce cards at high speed, and punched card capacity was doubled.
C-T-R employee with scale The growth and extension of C-T-R's activities made the old name of the company too limited, and, on February 14, 1924, C-T-R's name was formally changed to International Business Machines Corporation. By then, the company's business had expanded both geographically and functionally, including the completion of three manufacturing facilities in Europe.

 
Products & services
1920 1920
printing tabulator
 
1923 1923
first electric key punch
 
1926 1926
Sesquicentennial Exposition
 

Corporate administration
1924 1924
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
 
1924 1924
Quarter Century Club
 

Research & technology
1928 1928
first public address and program signaling systems
 

Facilities & buildings
1929 1929
Hammersmith (London), England
 

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