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Charles Ranlett Flint (1850-1934), financial capitalist, merchant and industrial consolidator was born in Thomaston, Maine, the son of Benjamin Chapman, a shipbuilder and operator, and Sarah Tobey Flint. His father, after being adopted by a maternal uncle, was allowed by an act of the state legislature, to change his name to Flint.
In 1868, Charles Flint graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, and in 1871 entered the shipping business as a partner in Gilchrest, Flint & Co., and later W.R. Grace & Co. after a merger. From 1876 to 1879, he served as the Chilean consul at New York City. He also served as consul general to the United States for Nicaragua and Costa Rica. In 1892, he merged several companies to ...
Charles Ranlett Flint, né le à Thomaston ( États-Unis) et mort le à Washington ( États-Unis ), est un homme d'affaires américain connu en partie pour avoir fondé le trust Computing-Tabulating-Recording (qui deviendra IBM le 14 février 1924 ). Il est considéré aux États-Unis comme le « fondateur du trust ».
7 de dez. de 2019 · Charles Ranlett Flint was born in 1850 in Maine. The family soon moved to New York, where his father worked as the manager of a firm called Chapman & Flint. The family was business was set up in 1837, and served as a mercantile firm dealing in loans and fiscal help. Flint finished his graduation from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1868 ...
15 de mai. de 2024 · Charles Ranlett Flint. retrieved. 9 October 2017. stated in. Flint, Charles Ranlett (24 January 1850–12 February 1934), merchant and company promoter.
When Watson was recruited by Charles Ranlett Flint in 1914 to join the Computing-Tabulating Recording Company, the precursor to IBM, the company had been badly underperforming expectations. Worse, there was little cohesion among the employees, who had represented three distinct entities just a few years earlier.
[Ed. – Charles Ranlett Flint was among the biggest movers and shakers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was born in Maine in 1850, but moved to New York City and attended the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, graduating when he was just 18 years old.
