 Early 20th century time clock made by IBM. The face shows employee numbers which would be dialed up by employees entering and leaving the factory. The day and time of entry and exit was punched onto cards inside the box. A time clock (sometimes known as a Clock card machine) is a mechanical timepiece used to assist in tracking the hours an employee of a company worked. This was accomplished by inserting a heavy paper card, called a time card, into a slot on the time clock. When the time card hit a contact at the rear of the slot, the machine would print day and time information on the card. This allowed a timekeeper to have an official record of the hours an employee worked to calculate and pay an employee. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1712x2288, 703 KB) Early twentieth century time clock used to keep track of employees work hours. ...
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A clock (from the Latin cloca, bell) is an instrument for measuring time. ...
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History
The first time clock was invented in November 20, 1888, by Willard Bundy, a jeweler in Auburn, New York. A year later his brother, Harlow Bundy, organized the Bundy Manufacturing Company, [1] and began mass producing time clocks. Bundy Manufacturing, along with two other time equipment businesses, was consolidated into the International Time Recording Company (ITR). [2][3] In 1911 ITR and two other companies were merged, forming Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR), which would later change its name to IBM. In 1958 IBM's Time Equipment Division was sold to the Simplex Time Recorder Company. Auburn is a city in Cayuga County, New York, United States of America. ...
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International Business Machines Corporation (known as IBM or Big Blue; NYSE: IBM) is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. ...
SimplexGrinnell is a subsidiary of Tyco International, specializing in fire protection systems formed from the merger of Simplex Time Recorder Company and Grinnell Fire Protection in 2001. ...
The time cards usually had the workdays and time in and time out areas marked on them so that employees could "punch in" or "punch out" in the correct place. The employee was responsible to line up the correct area of the card to be punched with an indicator on the time card. Software applications offer such a system.
In the 1990s, time clocks started to move away from the mechanical version to computer based time tracking systems. On these systems, the employee either enters an employee number, swipes a magnetic striped card or uses some other device to identify the employee to the system. Based on the system being used, the employee then enters what should be recorded. This could be "punching in", "punching out", lunch breaks, reason for leaving early, or any other type of information the employer requires. Biometric time clock systems are also used that authenticate employees while "punching in/out" though scanning finger prints, palm prints, or by measuring dimensions of the hand. For the band, see 1990s (band). ...
Biometric time clocks are a class of employee time clock that detect a persons biological attributes to identify them. ...
The Poughkeepsie National Guard Armory had on display one of the oldest operating time clocks, as of 1980. Poughkeepsie City of Poughkeepsie Town of Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie, Arkansas This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The United States National Guard is a component of the United States Army (the Army National Guard) and the United States Air Force (the Air National Guard). ...
An armory is a military depot used for the storage of weapons and ammunition. ...
Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ...
Time clocks which use some form of identifying someone by characteristics of his body are called biometric time clocks.
Fingerprint clocks
 contactless magenetic time clock card Fingerprint clocks are a type of biometric time clock for recording worker's hours on the job. Fingerprint clocks do not store images of a person's fingerprint, but store binary data representing the ridges and swirls of the fingerprint. Image File history File links Magnetstempelkarte_(kontaktlos). ...
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One common configuration is to have a fingerprint reader connected by USB cable to a computer which uses that data to authenticate a person. Note: USB may also mean upper sideband in radio. ...
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- http://www.timeclockoutlet.info/timeclocks/time-clock-software-fingerprint-scanner.php
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A stopwatch is a timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed from a particular time when activated to when the piece is deactivated. ...
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A timesheet is a method for recording the amount of a workers time spent on each job. ...
External links - IBM Time Clocks (PDF files)
- National Museum of American History: International Dial Time Recorder Clock
Footnotes - ^ IBM Archives: Bundy Manufacturing Co.
- ^ IBM Archives: International Time Recording
- ^ IBM Archives: ITR time recorder
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