Bundy Manufacturing Company
| Industry | Timekeeper devices |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1889 |
| Founders | Harlow E. Bundy, Willard L. Bundy |
| Parent | Simplex Time Recorder 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 then Simplex Time Recorder Company. The company was founded by the Bundy Brothers.
Willard Legrand 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.
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.
unknown: founding of Accurate Time Stamp Company.
unknown: founding of Chicago Time Register Company.
unknown: founding of Syracuse Time Recording Company.
1888: Willard L. Bundy invents the key recorder, applies it to time keeping for his employees.
1888: Dr. Alexander Dey invents the dial time recorder.
1889: Harlow E. Bundy and Willard L. Bundy incorporate the Bundy Manufacturing Company in Binghamton, New York, the first time recording company in the world, to produce time clocks. The Bundy Manufacturing Company begins with just eight employees and $150,000 capital.
1890: The Accurate Time Stamp Company (later renamed the Standard Time Stamp Company)- A Complete Automatic Time-Dating Stamp.
1893: Alexander Dey and relatives form the Dey Patents Co., later renamed the Dey Time Register Co of Syracuse, New York.
1894: Daniel M. Cooper patents the first card time recorder. The Willard and Frick Manufacturing Company is organized to market Cooper's invention under the trade name "Rochester".
1896: George Winthrop Fairchild joins Bundy Manufacturing Company as both an investor and director.
1898: About 9,000 Bundy Time Recorders have been produced; advertised as solving "vexatious questions of recording employee time".
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