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Remington Rand employees, Harold E. Sweeney ( left ) and J. Presper Eckert ( center ) demonstrate the U. S. Census Bureau's UNIVAC for CBS reporter Walter Cronkite ( right ).
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* 1936 – The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
* 1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
The " Critical Path Method " ( CPM ) was developed as a joint venture between DuPont Corporation and Remington Rand Corporation for managing plant maintenance projects.
* March 31 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
* May 25 – The Remington Rand strike of 1936 – 1937 begins, spawning the notorious " Mohawk Valley formula ", a corporate plan for strikebreaking.
The pistol tooling and manufacturing machines were transferred to Remington Rand and some went to the Ithaca Gun Company.
He later became Chairman of the Board of Remington Rand.
In 1952, Parker sold ERA to Remington Rand.
* Oral history interview with William Norris discusses ERA years, acquisition of ERA by Remington Rand, the Univac File computer, work as head of the Univac Division, and the formation of CDC.
The A-2 system was developed at the UNIVAC division of Remington Rand in 1953 and released to customers by the end of that year.
ARITH-MATIC was originally known as A-3, but was renamed by the marketing department of Remington Rand UNIVAC.
In 1950, Eckert – Mauchly Computer Corporation ran into financial troubles and was acquired by Remington Rand Corporation.
Eckert remained with Remington Rand and became an executive within the company.
He continued with Remington Rand as it merged with the Burroughs Corporation to become Unisys in 1986.
They were eventually purchased by Remington Rand and merged into their UNIVAC department.
In 1952 they were purchased by Remington Rand, largely as a result of these problems.
Remington Rand already had a computing division however, after they had purchased the Eckert – Mauchly Computer Corporation in 1950.
However, in 1955 Remington merged with Sperry Corporation to become Sperry Rand.
* Arthur L. Norberg, Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert – Mauchly Computer Company, Engineering Research Associates, and Remington Rand, 1946-1957 ( MIT Press, 2005 ).
* Oral history interview with Frank C. Mullaney at the Charles Babbage Institute-discusses Engineering Research Associates ( ERA ), especially the Atlas ( ERA 1101 ) computer, and successors ; John L. Hill ; the acquisition of ERA by Remington Rand, J. Presper Eckert, and the formation of Control Data Corporation
They were purchased by Remington Rand and became the UNIVAC division.
The Eckert-Mauchly Corporation was bought by Remington Rand in 1950 and for ten years Dr. Mauchly remained as Director of Univac Applications Research.
The roles of the National Bureau of Standards, Northrop Aircraft, Raytheon, Remington Rand, and IBM.
It was developed for the UNIVAC I at Remington Rand under Grace Hopper.
In 1955 Sperry acquired Remington Rand and renamed itself Sperry Rand.
Remington and employees
* 10 oral history interviews with Remington Rand executives and employees.
She identified more than 80 Americans — including several employees of government offices — as working for the Soviets, of whom only William Remington was still working in a government position.
Remington and Harold
* Peggy & Harold Samuels, Frederic Remington: A Biography, Doubleday & Co., Garden City NY, 1982, ISBN 0-385-14738-4.
Remington and E
* 1873 – E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
In 1873 Sholes's backer, James Densmore, succeeded in selling manufacturing rights for the Sholes & Glidden Type-Writer to E. Remington and Sons, and within a few months the keyboard layout was finalized by Remington's mechanics.
* E. Remington and Sons ( the famous firearm and later typewriter manufacturing company ) is founded.
Notable typewriter manufacturer companies have included E. Remington and Sons, IBM, Imperial Typewriters, Oliver Typewriter Company, Olivetti, Royal Typewriter Company, Smith Corona, and Underwood Typewriter Company.
* Remington Elementary School, 200 E Ellis Ave.
* Remington Middle School, 316 E Topeka St.
* The Univac M-460 Computer – Paper by J. E. Thornton, M. Macaulay, and D. H. Toth, Remington Rand Univac Division of Sperry Rand ( on-line version from Ed Thelen's Antique Computer Home Page )
There were 3 trademarks — " E. Remington & Sons, Ilion, NY ", " Remington Arms Co .", and " Remington-UMC ".
It was marked " E. Remington & Sons, Ilion, NY ".
Derringers with one part extractors marked E. Remington & Sons, Ilion, NY — 1870-1881.
Another son, Franz Mauser, travelled to America in 1853 with his sister and worked at E. Remington & Sons.
The rifle was shown to the Austrian War Ministry by Samuel Norris of E. Remington & Sons.
E. Remington and Sons ( 1816 – 1896 ) was a manufacturer of firearms and typewriters.
In 1839 Eliphalet was joined by his oldest son, Philo Remington ( to make the business " E. Remington & Son "), and in 1845 his second son, Samuel, also joined the company, afterwards called " E. Remington & Sons ".
The patent ( U. S. 79, 265 ) was sold for $ 12, 000 to Densmore and Yost, who made an agreement with E. Remington and Sons ( then famous as a manufacturer of sewing machines ), to commercialize what was known as the Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer.
E. Remington and Sons changed its name to " Remington Arms ".
Remington No. 16 TypewriterIn 1886, E. Remington and Sons sold its typewriter business to the Standard Typewriter Manufacturing Company, Inc.
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