Hourglass - IBM relief - Endicott, NY
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N 42° 06.325 W 076° 02.714
18T E 413579 N 4662009
This is part of a series of Art Deco reliefs on the IBM buildings on North Street in Endicott. Hourglasses and abacuses represent time instruments and calculating devices.
Waymark Code: WMVHAR
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 04/20/2017
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"Back before there was an International Business Machines (c.1924); back before Thomas J. Watson, Sr., joined IBM's predecessor, the Computing-Tabulating-Machine Company (1914)...A century ago, in 1906, Harlow Bundy -- a Binghamton, N.Y., manufacturer of time recorders -- moved his young International Time Recording Company (ITR) into a new three-story brick building in Endicott. ;"
Time recorders were essentially instruments to record time, punch clocks. They looked like old clocks.
The hourglass reliefs are a reference to time devices like the time recorders.