Manual Time and Attendance Tracking System still exist today that rely on the review
of times stamped on paper cards from machines such as the Bundy Clock. A jeweler in Auburn, New York, Willard Bundy, invented the first time clock in November 20, 1888. The Bundy Manufacturing Company was organized a year later and began mass production of time clocks. Bundy Manufacturing consolidated with two other time equipment businesses forming the International Time Recording Company (ITR) that merged in 1911 with two other companies forming the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR), which would later be renamed to IBM. Then in 1958, IBM's Time Equipment Division was sold to the Simplex Time Recorder Company.