Intermatic

Intermatic Inc.
IndustryElectrical equipment
PredecessorInternational Register Company
Founded1891; 133 years ago (1891) in Chicago, Illinois, United States
FounderArthur Woodward[1]
Headquarters
Spring Grove, Illinois
,
United States
Number of employees
250 to 1000 (2022)
Websiteintermatic.com

Intermatic Incorporated is an American manufacturer of time switches headquartered in Spring Grove, Illinois. Intermatic was founded in 1891 in Chicago, Illinois as the International Register Company to produce fare registers.[2]

The company's founder was A.H. Woodward who held several patents onn fare registers (mechanical devices for recording passenger ticket and ridership).[3][4]

A register for recording transit fares by A. H. Woodward of the International Register Co.

The company introduced its first lighting timer in 1945, and today makes timing and control systems for line and low voltage systems used in residential, commercial, government, and industrial systems.[5]

The company sells the Time-All line of timers for consumer applications.[6][7]

  1. ^ "Intermatic Incorporated". www.idaillinois.org. State of Illinois. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Intermatic Incorporated". www.idaillinois.org. Illinois Digital Archives, State of Illinois. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
  3. ^ Woodward, Arthur H. (7 November 1905). "Bell mechanism for registers". Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  4. ^ Woodward, Arthur H. (24 April 1906). "Fare-register". Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Intermatic Inc - Company Profile and News". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Word Mark TIME-ALL". tmsearch.uspto.gov. United States Patent & Trademark Office. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
  7. ^ "New timers with 'smart' electronics". The New York Times. 11 November 1986. p. 68. Retrieved 22 August 2022. For example, the Time-All Programmer from Intermatic Inc.