Punched-card equipment was first introduced in Britain in 1904 by a small company. What was the name of that company?

The Tabulator Ltd.
Tabulator Machine Company
International Business Machines (IBM)
Accounting & Tabulating Corpn. of Great Britain E. None of the above

The correct answer is: A. The Tabulator Ltd.

The Tabulator Ltd. was a British company that introduced punched-card equipment in 1904. The company was founded by Herman Hollerith, who had developed the punched-card system in the United States. The Tabulator Ltd.’s punched-card equipment was used for a variety of purposes, including census taking, accounting, and manufacturing.

The Tabulator Machine Company was an American company that was founded in 1896. The company developed and manufactured punched-card equipment. In 1924, the Tabulator Machine Company merged with the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) to form International Business Machines (IBM).

Accounting & Tabulating Corpn. of Great Britain was a British company that was founded in 1911. The company manufactured and sold punched-card equipment. In 1924, the company merged with the Tabulator Ltd. to form the British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM).

None of the above is not the correct answer.