George F. Daly

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George F. Daly (March 23, 1903 , † February 1983 ) was a computer engineer at IBM .

From 1920 Daly was with the Computing Tabulating and Recording Company (CTR), the predecessor of IBM. First he was a draftsman in their laboratory in Endicott, New York. In the 1920s he developed computers for bookkeeping in the IBM 285 and 297 series (type III and type IV) and from 1931 with James Bryce multiplying machines such as the types 600 and 601 and the 602 A, the last development of electromechanical computers at IBM and the same their most advanced device in this field. In 1940 he became a senior engineer, worked on developments for the US military during World War II and was responsible for patent applications at IBM from the mid-1950s. In 1967 he retired.

In 1967 he became an IBM Fellow . He held 78 patents with IBM.

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  1. George F. Daly , U.S. Social Security Death Directory (SSDI), accessed May 17, 2017