San Francisco / York City / San Jose / Arlington / Palo Alto / Los Angeles / /
Company
Burroughs Corporation / Remington Rand / RCA / ERMA Trade / Bendix / NCR / Bank of America Bankof / ElectroData Corporation / Bank of ~mericaand SRI / IBM / BofAin 1950 / Bank of Amerlca / Company Clary Corporation / BofA / Telemeter-Flexometer Underwood Corporation / SRI International / National Cash Register Addressograph-MultigraphCorp / Others SRl / Bank of America / curStamford Tool & Die Corporation / BeU Laboratory / Bank of Amenca / Shepard Laboratories / /
Continent
America / Europe / /
Country
United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / Business Partnership / Employment Change / Person Travel / Patent Issuance / /
Facility
Stanford University / America headquarters / Harvard University / SRl's Menlo Park headquarters / Stanford Research Institute / /
IndustryTerm
conventional ledger-card accounting machine / information-processing operations / batch-processing centen / bank examiner / equipment manufacturer / Input device / bank offices / understood banking / bank / electronic applications / stat& banking system / banking services / automatic machinery / check vls~bletoan operator / temporary and permanent storage media / readerlsoner devices / check-processing system / tight banking time schedule / manufacturing / paper-handling systems / printing houses / artain applications / peripheral equipment / check-processing operations / bank closing / bank management team / automated check processing / automatic photoelectric reading device / throughrhe printing press / electronics packages / Bank management / office machinery / computer systems / printing / far-ranging technology search / branch bank / banking / check processing / local bank / printing tolerances / bank legend / bank employees / /
NaturalFeature
West Coast / /
Organization
US Federal Reserve / United States Postal Service / Harvard University / Stanford Research Institute / American Bankers Association Technical Subcommittee on the Mechanization of CheckHandling / US Patent Board / United Nations / Stanford University / Stanford / /
Person
Ted Welch / John Davis / AMY WEAVER FISHER JAMES / Paul Wendt / Bernard J. O'Connor / C. Bruce Clark / Ken Eldredge / Fred Kamphoefner / Bart Cox / Howard Leif / Engineen / Frank M. Dana / Charles Conroy / Ranaulf Beames / William H. Kautzset / Lei / Stanford Univenity / Oliver Whitby / Robert Reilly / S. Clark Beise / JAMES L. MCKENNEY / Thomas H. Morrin / Charlie Conroy / Jerre Noe / Tom Morrin / Connor andTatsu / Howard Zeidler / Joseph Lovewell / Jack Gold / R.V.D. Campbell / /
Position
project leader / industrial engineer in the standards department / director of engineering research / president / vice president / check writer / flying messenger / head / model at o n e / engineer / active leader / economist / manager / experienced bank operations manager / messenger / senior vice president / comptroller / crucial player / Marshall / assistant to Beames / manager of systems engineering / FISHER / member of the board / head of engineering sciences division / /
The Development of the ERMA Banking System: Lessons from History AMY WEAVER FISHER JAMES L. MCKENNEY In the early 1950s banklng was faced w~tha paper-handlmg crlss. Banks were unable to keep on top of the rising number o