James Legrand Powers was a United States inventor and entrepreneur, the founder of the Powers Accounting Machine Company. Born in Odessa, then in the Russian Empire and now in Ukraine, in 1871, he graduated from Odessa Technical School, worked in the mechanical shop of Odessa University and emigrated to the United States in 1889, where he was employed by engineering concerns including Western Electric. In 1907 the US Census Bureau hired him as a mechanical expert to modify the unit record equipment invented by Herman Hollerith, after Hollerith refused to lower his rental fees. Powers founded his company in 1911 as the Powers Tabulating Machine Company in Newark, New Jersey, and moved it to Brooklyn, New York, in 1914. Remington Rand acquired it within a year of the 1927 merger that formed that firm, and after several more mergers the company became Unisys. Powers died in New York on 8 November 1927.
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James Legrand Powers (1871 - November 8, 1927) was a US inventor and entrepreneur, the founder of Powers Accounting Machine
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In 1907, Powers was hired by the US Census Bureau as a mechanical expert to modify unit record equipment invented two decades earlier by Herman Hollerith.
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the founder of Powers Accounting Machine Company
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