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On 6 October 2000, the NMCI contract was awarded to Electronic Data Systems (EDS), now HP Enterprise Services (HP). Secretary of the Navy Gordon England summed up the Navy's IT Environment prior to the commencement of NMCI: “We basically had 28 separate commands budgeting, developing, licensing, and operating IT autonomously.
Edison Machine Works on Goerck Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan photographed by Edison employee Charles L. Clarke.. The Edison Machine Works was a manufacturing company set up to produce dynamos, large electric motors, and other components of the electrical illumination system being built in the 1880s by Thomas A. Edison in New York City.
A spirit duplicator (also referred to as a Rexograph or Ditto machine in North America, Banda machine or Fordigraph machine in the U.K. and Australia) is a printing method invented in 1923 by Wilhelm Ritzerfeld that was commonly used for much of the rest of the 20th century. The term "spirit duplicator" refers to the alcohols that were a major ...
In January 1981 EDS purchased Centurion Computer Corp, founded as Warrex Computer Corporation in 1972, a manufacturer of small business minicomputers. General Motors acquisition. In 1984, the company was acquired by General Motors for $2.5 billion (~$6.21 billion in 2023), with EDS becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of GM. Meyerson remained ...
This machine was new technology for the industry and was highly versatile and productive for a variety of work. The DUPLEX TRUCK® Company of Lansing, Michigan , a heavy duty and specialized truck manufacturer was acquired in 1955 to supply truck chassis for the GRADALL and future Warner & Swasey backhoe excavator and crane products.
Whitin Machine Works, 2005. The Whitin Machine Works (WMW) was founded by Paul Whitin and his sons in 1831 on the banks of the Mumford River in Northbridge, Massachusetts. The village in this section of Northbridge became known as Whitinsville in 1835, in honor of its founder. The WMW became one of the largest textile machinery companies in the ...
Minster Machine Company's logo prior to its sale to Nidec-Shimpo. In 1896, Anton Herkenhoff and Joseph Dues founded the Dues and Herkenhoff Machine Works, a blacksmith shop. Soon, Dues sold his share of the business, and Herkenhoff renamed the enterprise The Minster Machine Company.
It succeeded the Edison United Manufacturing Company, founded in 1886 as a sales agency for the Edison Lamp Company, Edison Machine Works, and Bergmann & Company, which made electric lighting fixtures, sockets, and other accessories.