Historical Moments in Time There is really nothing new about our need to track time. Since the dawn of mankind, we have created fascinating time keeping techniques and technologies. Each helps shed some light on what makes our workforce tick. The following are some achievements in timekeeping for the workplace: Bundy's time clock invention laid the foundation for the future IBM The first time clock was invented November 20, 1888, by Willard Bundy, a jeweler from Auburn, New York. A year later, his brother, Harlow Bundy, organized the Bundy Manufacturing Company, and began mass producing time clocks. This picture shows a group of Bundy employees in 1900, just two years before their company consolidated into the International Time Recording Company. ITR itself became the newly-formed Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. in 1911, which was renamed IBM 13 years later. Thomas Alva Edison's time clock from his Menlo Park laboratories now always reads 7:10 AM to honor the last time he clocked out of this laboratory before he passed in 1931