IBM at 100: A Round-Up of Media Coverage

As many in the business history community will have noted, IBM (International Business Machines) turned 100 last month (June 16, to be precise, marking the date that the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was founded). The company marked the occasion with its own centennial website, featuring films, images, and essays about IBM's past and future. A great deal of other material about the history of the company can be found on the IBM Archives website, including interviews with Tom Watson, Sr. and Jr.
In addition, several newspaper and magazine columnists took note of the event:

The New York Times published "Lessons in Longevity from IBM"
The Economist published a lengthy substantive piece, "1100100 and Counting"
Biztech2 imagined the world without IBM
The Atlantic provided a "Heavily Illustrated Timeline"
Forbes featured an interview with current CEO Sam Palmisano
The WSJ published "100 Years of 'Think' " and a "Happy Birthday" piece on its Tech blog
CNN Money published a short retrospective and an article on "Lessons"
PCWorld looked at IBM's technological milestones
CNet wrote about "15 Inflection Points in History"
NPR published a time line of IBM's most important moments
CNBC featured a guest blog by Steve Hamm, co-author of IBM's centennial book, Making the World Work Better
PBS's Nightly Business Report ran an interview with IBM's VP of Innovation
MarketWatch focused on "What IBM Can Teach Apple and HP"
"The Street" ran an article entitled "100 Years of Fortitude"
The Early Show on CBS covered the anniversary

The history of technology scholar most well known for work on IBM is Emerson Pugh, especially Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology (MIT Press, 1995; 2009); for an early business history, see Robert Sobel, Thomas Watson, Sr.: IBM and the Computer Revolution (1981; 2008); on the Watsons, books include Richard S. Tedlow's The Watson Dynasty (HarperCollins, 2004) and journalist Kevin Maney's The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr., and the Making of IBM (John Wiley, 2004). Maney is also the co-author, with Steve Hamm and Jeffrey O'Brien, of IBM's own centennial history, Making the World Work Better (IBM Press, 2011).

Digital Collection: Princeton Exhibit of Subway Posters

The Princeton University Library has digitized a number of posters from the Interborough Rapid Transit Subway Company . The posters, designed by the public relations firm Ivy Lee, were displayed in subway cars to provide information to riders about changes in fares and routes, safety issues, and other matters of interest. The collection consists of 385 images dating from 1918 to 1932; many of them provide financial information about rates, company dividends, and a general look at an early rapid transit system. October 29, update: Jonathan Rees over at "More or Less Bunk" was moved by this post to go off in search of a better site, and found the massive collection of the London Transport Museum , which displays over 5,000 items in a searchable collection .

The Exchange has moved to the BHC's website

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Wilfried Feldenkirchen (1947-2010)

With sadness we report the death of longtime BHC member Wilfried Feldenkirchen. He died in a car accident on June 21, 2010, while test driving a replica of Siemens' 1905 electric car, the Victoria , a project for which he was the manager. He was professor of economic, social, and business history in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. A former trustee of the BHC and a member of the editorial board of Enterprise & Society , Professor Dr. Feldenkirchen specialized in nineteenth- and twentieth-century corporate and financial history, focusing particularly on Siemens. In addition to numerous articles and essays, his works include: The Banks and the Steel Industry in the Ruhr: Developments in Relations from 1874 to 1914 (1981) Werner von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur (1994) Siemens, 1918-1945 (1999) Siemens: From Workshop to Global Player (2000) "Vom Guten das Beste": Von Daimler und Be...

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