Kleinschmidt Inc. was established in 1898 by Edward Kleinschmidt

Edward Kleinschmidt

Edward Ernst Kleinschmidt was one of the inventors of the teleprinter, and was a prolific inventor who obtained 118 patents in the course of his 101-year life.-Career:...

. It is a privately owned firm that provides electronic commerce

Electronic commerce

Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce, eCommerce or e-comm, refers to the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. However, the term may refer to more than just buying and selling products online...

, electronic data interchange

Electronic Data Interchange

Electronic data interchange is the structured transmission of data between organizations by electronic means. It is used to transfer electronic documents or business data from one computer system to another computer system, i.e...

 , and value-added network

Value-added network

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 services. Its headquarters are in Deerfield, Illinois

Deerfield, Illinois

Deerfield is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States and is located approximately 25 miles north of Chicago, Illinois. A portion of the village is in Cook County, Illinois, United States...

.

Edward Kleinschmidt was one of the inventors of the teleprinter

Teleprinter

A teleprinter is a electromechanical typewriter that can be used to communicate typed messages from point to point and point to multipoint over a variety of communication channels that range from a simple electrical connection, such as a pair of wires, to the use of radio and microwave as the...

, one of the first electronic commerce devices.

History

1893 - Edward Ernst Kleinschmidt started working with telegraphy

Telegraphy

Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages via some form of signalling technology. Telegraphy requires messages to be converted to a code which is known to both sender and receiver...

;

1898 - Edward E Kleinschmidt opened his own experimental shop;

1906 - George Seely joined Kleinschmidt’s shop with a partially developed block system for electric trolley car railways;

1910 - Exhibited at the Association of American Railroads

Association of American Railroads

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 Communications Convention;

1910 - Kleinschmidt started to receive multiple patents;

1914 - Kleinschmidt Electric Company was founded;

1924 - Kleinschmidt Electric merged with the Morkrum Company to form Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Corporation;

1928 - The company name was changed to Teletype Corporation

Teletype Corporation

The Teletype Corporation, a part of American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Western Electric manufacturing arm since 1930, came into being in 1928 when the Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Company changed its name to the name of its trademark equipment...

;

1930 - The Teletype Corporation was sold to AT&T for $30,000,000 in stock;

1931 - Kleinschmidt Laboratories Inc. was founded;

1944 - Edward E. Kleinschmidt demonstrated his lightweight teleprinter at the Chief Signal Officer;

1949 - The Kleinschmidt 100-words-per-minute typebar page printer was made the standard for the Military;

1956 - Kleinschmidt Laboratories Inc. merged with Smith-Corona which merged with Marchant Calculators shortly thereafter;

1979 - Started to provide Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Car Location Message (CLM) services;

1986 - Hanson Trust acquired SCM Corporation. Harry S. Gaples, then president, purchased the company from Hanson Trust.

See also

• Edward Kleinschmidt
  Edward Kleinschmidt
  Edward Ernst Kleinschmidt was one of the inventors of the teleprinter, and was a prolific inventor who obtained 118 patents in the course of his 101-year life.-Career:...
  
  
• Electronic commerce
  Electronic commerce
  Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce, eCommerce or e-comm, refers to the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. However, the term may refer to more than just buying and selling products online...
  
  
• Electronic Data Interchange
  Electronic Data Interchange
  Electronic data interchange is the structured transmission of data between organizations by electronic means. It is used to transfer electronic documents or business data from one computer system to another computer system, i.e...
  
  
• Enterprise Application Integration
  Enterprise application integration
  Enterprise Application Integration is defined as the use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications.- Overview :...
  
  
• Supply Chain Management
  Supply chain management
  Supply chain management is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers...
  
  
• Teletypewriter
• Value-added network
  Value-added network
  A Value-added Network is a hosted service offering that acts as an intermediary between business partners sharing standards based or proprietary data via shared Business Processes...