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Autopoint Company — The Autopoint Company was a manufacturer of pencils and desk top accessories in Chicago for about 50 years from the 1920s to around 1970. During that period Autopoint sold millions of pencils advertising companies large and small all over the… … Wikipedia
Charles R. Keeran — was an Illinois inventor and businessman. Keeran was originally from Bloomington, Illinois. Around 1914, Keeran invented the basic mechanism for the Eversharp mechanical pencil, thought up the Eversharp trademark, and set up a company to make and … Wikipedia
Frank C. Deli — Frank Deli (October 10 1886 – 1946) was a Chicago businessman. Deli was born in the Austro Hungarian Empire and emigrated to the United States in 1903. In the early 1920s, Deli helped found the Autopoint Company. He helped pioneer the use of… … Wikipedia
Charles Rood Keeran — circa 1910 1920 Charles Rood Keeran (16 April 1883 June 9, 1948) was an Illinois inventor and businessman. Contents 1 Biography … Wikipedia
John P. Lynn — was a Chicago businessman. After serving in France during World War I, Lynn returned to Chicago. Around 1920, he was one of the founders of the Autopoint Company. He helped pioneer the use of plastics to make mecnanical pencils. Around 1925, Lynn … Wikipedia
Michael M. Kaufmann — Michael Kaufmann (May 26, 1891 – June 3, 1949) was a Chicago businessman. In the early 1920s, Kaufmann helped found the Autopoint Company. He helped pioneer the use of plastics to make mechanical pencils. Around 1925, Kaufmann sold his holdings… … Wikipedia
Mark sense — Main article: Unit record equipment Electrographic is a term used for punched card and page scanning technology that allowed cards or pages marked with a pencil to be processed or converted into punched cards. That technology was sold by IBM, its … Wikipedia
Cory Corporation — Harvey Cory patented his glass filter rod design (No. 114097), for which the patent was granted in 1939.[1] In 1951, the Cory Corporation, a Chicago company, bought Autopoint from Union Carbide. Cory operated Autopoint as a division appointing… … Wikipedia
IBM 610 — The IBM 610 Auto Point Computer was the first personal computer, in the sense of a computer to be used by one person and was controlled by a keyboard. The principal designer of this machine was John Lentz, as part of his work for the Watson Lab… … Wikipedia
Julius Lederer — Jules Lederer was an American business executive and innovator. In the 1950s, Lederer was president of the Autopoint Company in Chicago; later he became a co founder of Budget Rent a Car, now a unit of Cendant.Lederer was married to Ann Landers,… … Wikipedia
