e commerce edi clm founded 1931 headquarters deerfield illinois area served worldwide key people harry gaples ceo ; bob schmidt president website www.kleinschmidt.com kleinschmidt inc. was established in 1931 by edward kleinschmidt . 1 it is a privately owned firm that provides electronic commerce electronic data interchange and value added network services . its headquarters are in deerfield illinois . edward kleinschmidt was one of the inventors of the teleprinter one of the first electronic commerce devices . contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit 1893 edward ernst kleinschmidt started working with telegraphy ; 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 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 ; 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 calculating machine company shortly thereafter forming scm ; 1979 started to provide electronic data interchange edi and car location message clm services ; 1986 hanson trust acquired scm corporation . harry s. gaples then kleinschmidt division president purchased the division from hanson trust . see also edit edward kleinschmidt electronic commerce electronic data interchange enterprise application integration supply chain management teletypewriter value added network references edit kleinschmidt history external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kleinschmidt inc & oldid 739148458 categories companies based in deerfield illinoisnetworking companieshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersofficial website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 september 2016 at 01 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view