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The first automatic press, called the E-1, ships to Brooks Printing in November 1897.

Charles Harris dies in June 1910.

The photographic program started in 1914 and to this day has collected some 110,000 exposures on glass plates.

Harris Automatic Press became an early leader in commercial printing press technology and a pioneer in offset lithography, moving to a new factory at 4510 East 71st Street in Cleveland in 1917.

Incorporated: 1926 as Harris-Seybold-Potter CompanyEmployees: 35,000Sales: $3 billionStock Index: New York Midwest Pacific Philadelphia Boston

The first Electron Microscope was developed in our Camden, NJ location in 1940.

The company's name was shortened to Harris Seybold in 1946.

After GEORGE S. DIVELY gained control of the company in 1947, Harris-Seybold expanded its position within the growing graphic arts market by adding heavy and light industry subdivisions and strengthening the company's presence in the printing, copy machine, and electronics fields.

One of the earliest of these businesses was Radiation, Inc., established in 1950 by Homer Denius and George Shaw, both of whom were electronics engineers.

Harris developed a professional-quality, portable printing press for the army in 1951 to produce on-site multicolor maps, charts, and reconnaissance photos.

In 1955 Pan American World Airways began recruiting Japanese American women to work as stewardesses on its Tokyo-bound flights and eventually its round-the-world flights as well.

Hartley joined the firm in 1956, the same year that Radiation stock was first sold to the public.

After merging with the Intertype Corporation in 1957, it changed its name to Harris-Intertype Corporation.

Boyd joined Radiation in 1962 and within a year was made president of the firm.

The two companies merged in 1967 under the Harris-Intertype name.

By 1970, electronics provided 50% of the company's $380 million sales.

In 1972, Harris-Intertype purchased General Electric’s product line of TV broadcasting cameras, transmitters, studio equipment, and antennas for $5.5 million in cash, adding greatly to its original broadcasting product line.

Two years later, in 1974, Harris-Intertype acquired Datacraft Corporation and also divested itself of its corrugated paper machinery business.

But by 1976 things began to change for Harris; over the following three years its stock rose more than 100 percent.

By 1977 Harris's sales were more than $646 million and earnings were greater than $40 million.

Harris opened a new plant in Melbourne, Florida, that year and moved its headquarters there from Cleveland in 1978, after changing its name to the Harris Corporation just four years earlier.

Boyd was appointed chairman and CEO two years later, in 1979.

In 1980 Harris made another important purchase, of the Farinon Corporation, a manufacturer of microwave transmitters, electronic switchboards, and other sophisticated telephone products.

The company reorganized its printing equipment sector as the Harris Graphics Corporation in 1982 and acquired Atlanta-based office systems supplier, Lanier Business Products, the following year.

In 1983 Harris marked another turning point in its history.

In June 1987 the company agreed to settle out of court, for $1.3 million, a claim that Harris had overcharged NASA to upgrade the security system for a ground tracking station.

Harris’s 1989 formation of Lanier Worldwide was also paying off.

In January 1991 Harris learned that it had won a $1.7 billion Federal Aviation Administration contract to develop the voice switching and control system of the nation’s air traffic control (ATC) communications systems.

Harris’s push into another nondefense high-tech sector— advanced energy management systems for electric utilities— was strengthened in 1992 when Harris acquired Westronic Inc. of Canada.

By 1995, the Harris Corporation employed 27,000 people and had annual sales of approximately $3.5 billion.

"Harris Completes Exigent Offer," Satellite News, May 21, 2001.

By 2003, Harris Graphics ceased operations at E 71st Street and Accurate Precision Grinding used the location for its machine shop.

The Orkand Corporation was purchased in 2004 in a deal that added new customers to Harris's lineup, including the United States Postal Service, and the United States Departments of State, Energy, Health and Human Services.