Bundy Manufacturing Company

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. The company was founded by the Bundy brothers.

Willard L. Bundy was born on 8 December 1845 in Otsego, New York, and died on 19 January 1907. His family later moved to Auburn, New York, where he worked as a jeweler and invented a time clock in 1888. He later obtained patents of many mechanical devices. However, he split with his brother and business associates about these patents, wanting to keep them for himself and his family. He moved to Syracuse and purchased the Dey Time Recording Company, later renaming it the International Time Recording Company. This company later failed.

Harlow E. Bundy was born in 1856 in Auburn, New York. He was a graduate of Hamilton College. He died in 1916 in Pasadena, California, after retiring from business in 1915.

In 1889, the two brothers established the Bundy Manufacturing Company in Binghamton, New York to produce time clocks. The clocks were intended to eliminate the need for timekeepers and watchmen, who would otherwise be required to ensure that workers were diligent in performing their work. The original Bundy Manufacturing Company employed less than a dozen workers. The Bundy Manufacturing Company relocated to Endicott, New York in 1906 (see Williams' Binghamton City Directory, 1906).

It merged with the Frick Manufacturing Company and the Standard Time Stamp Company. It acquired the Chicago Time Register Company. Then known as the International Time Recording Company, it acquired the Del Ray Register Company and the Syracuse Time Recording Company. In 1911, it and three other companies merged to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR). In 1924, CTR was renamed International Business Machines.