Editing Powers Accounting Machine (section)

==Corporate==
After successful use in the 1910 census, Mr. Powers formed a corporation to manufacture his machines and sell them commercially. The company was founded in 1911 in [[Newark, New Jersey]]. In 1914, he moved to [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]].
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Because of its better price and capability, it almost put the Tabulating Machine Company out of business, and led to its merger into [[IBM]] and Hollerith's retirement.<ref name=census-Hollerith/>   ----------------------->
Originally known as Powers Tabulating Machine Company, the name was changed to Powers Accounting Machine Company to better target a broad scope of market.

In 1927 the [[E. Remington and Sons|Remington Typewriter Company]] and the [[Kardex Group|Rand Kardex]] Corporation merged, forming [[Remington Rand]] Inc.  Within a year Remington Rand acquired the Powers Accounting Machine Company.<ref>{{cite book |title= A History of Sperry Rand Corporation |publisher= Sperry Rand |year= 1967|pages= 32}}</ref>

In Europe, Powers established European operations in 1915 through the Accounting and Tabulating Machine Company of Great Britain Limited, and in 1929 renamed to [[Powers-Samas]] Accounting Machine Limited (Samas, full name Societe Anonyme des Machines a Statistiques, had been the Power's sales agency in France).<ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/VirtualVisibleStorage/artifact_frame.php?tax_id=01.02.03.00 Powers-Samas Card Punch], ComputerHistory.org, accessed September 2011</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Cortada |first=James W. |title=Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, & Remington Rand & The Industry they Created 1865—1956 |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |date=February 8, 1993 |page=57 |isbn=978-0691048079}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| last=Pugh|first=Emerson W. |title=Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology|page= 259|publisher = [[MIT Press]] |date=March 16, 1995|isbn=978-0262161473}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Van Ness |first= Robert G. |title= Principles of Punched Card Data Processing |publisher= The Business Press |year= 1962 |page=15}}</ref>