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No company of the twentieth century achieved greater success and engendered more admiration, respect, envy, fear, and hatred than IBM. Building IBM tells the story of that company—how it was formed, how it grew, and how it shaped and dominated the information processing industry. Emerson Pugh presents substantial new material about the company in the period before 1945 as well as a new interpretation of the postwar era. Granted unrestricted access to IBM's archival records and with no constraints on the way he chose to treat the information they contained, Pugh dispels many widely held myths about IBM and its leaders and provides new insights on the origins and development of the computer industry. Pugh begins the story with Herman Hollerith's invention of punched-card machines used for tabulating the U.S. Census of 1890, showing how Hollerith's inventions and the business he established provided the primary basis for IBM. He tells why Hollerith merged his company in 1911 with two other companies to create the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, which changed its name in 1924 to International Business Machines. Thomas J. Watson, who was hired in 1914 to manage the merged companies, exhibited remarkable technological insight and leadership—in addition to his widely heralded salesmanship—to build Hollerith's business into a virtual monopoly of the rapidly growing punched-card equipment business. The fascinating inside story of the transfer of authority from the senior Watson to his older son, Thomas J. Watson Jr., and the company's rapid domination of the computer industry occupy the latter half of the book. In two final chapters, Pugh examines conditions and events of the 1970s and 1980s and identifies the underlying causes of the severe probems IBM experienced in the 1990s.

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Pugh's book offers the most thoughtful appreciation of IBM's place in American business history. His analysis reveals the source of IBM's strength over the last 100 years and the shortcomings that brought the company difficulty in the last 10 years.

Pugh's book offers the most thoughtful appreciation of IBM's place in American business history. No other author has written about IBM's contributions to technology and business with such even-handedness. Building IBM will be a classic. Arthur L. Norberg, Professor of Computer Science, University of Minnesota).

He was a leader in magnetic and computer memory technologies and author of several books, including college-level physics textbooks and the history of IBM. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was President of IEEE in 1989.

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Building IBM tells the story of that company-how it was formed, how it grew, and how it shaped and dominated the information processing industry

Building IBM tells the story of that company-how it was formed, how it grew, and how it shaped and dominated the information processing industry. Established in 1962, the MIT Press is one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world and a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design.

Emerson Pugh presents substantial new material about the company in the period before 1945 as well as a new . Pugh begins the story with Herman Hollerith's invention of punched-card machines used for tabulating the . Census of 1890, showing how Hollerith's inventions and the business he established provided the primary basis for IBM. He tells why Hollerith merged his company in 1911 with two other companies to create the -Recording Company, which changed its name in 1924 to International Business Machines.

Building IBM tells the story. This text tells the history of IBM - how it was formed, how it grew and how it shaped and dominated the information processing industry. It presents material about the company in the period before 1945 as well as an interpretation of the post-war era.

Emerson Pugh presents substantial new material about the company in the period before 1945 as well as a new interpretation of. .Pugh's book offers the most thoughtful appreciation of IBM's place in American business history.

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