Gerber Scientific Inc. located in Tolland, Connecticut

Tolland, Connecticut

Tolland is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 13,146 at the 2000 census.Tolland was named in May, 1715, and incorporated in May, 1722. According to some, the town derives its name from being a toll station on the old road between Boston and New York. ...

, is the parent of companies which provide end-to-end customer solutions to the world's sign making and specialty graphics, ophthalmic lens processing, and apparel and flexible materials industries. They also supply purpose-built software to integrate with their hardware systems. The original company, called Gerber Scientific Instrument Co., was founded in 1948 by Joseph Gerber

Joseph Gerber

H. Joseph Gerber was the founder of the Gerber Scientific Instrument Company.Born in Austria in 1924, H. Joseph Gerber showed an early fascination with technology. By the age of eight, he was building radios and circuit breakers...

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Companies include:

• Gerber Scientific Products which builds Sign Making and specialty graphics systems;
• Spandex which supplies sign making and digital print hardware, software and materials;
• Gerber Technology which builds and supplies apparel and flexible material systems; and
• Gerber Coburn which builds and supplies Ophthalmic Lens processing systems. As of January 1, 2011 Gerber Coburn had become Coburn Technologies, a stand alone entity.

External links

• History of Gerber Scientific
• Gerber Scientific Instrument Company Records, 1911-1998 (Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History)