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About Gordon van Beuren King
"...a 1933 graduate of the Columbia School of Engineering, died October 20, 1985, at the age if 74. In the 1950's, King invented a sytem of numbers and letters that could be read by both humans and machines-leading directly totoday's automatic check processing systems. His patents were licensed to the Sperry Corporation."
the above from the Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 8, Number 2, April 1986
Gordon King, Inventor Of Symbols on Checks
New york Times Published: November 1, 1985
Gordon van Beuren King, an engineer and inventor, died Oct. 20 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a long illness. He was 74 years old and lived in Beverly Hills.
In the 1950's, Mr. King developed a system of numbers and letters that could be recognized both by the human eye and by a mechanical scanner of his design. By permitting automatic check processing, the system was a key contribution to modern banking. Mr. King licensed his patents to Sperry-Rand, now the Sperry Corporation.
Born in Convent Station, N.J., he was a 1933 graduate of the Columbia University School of Engineering. His father, Willard Vinton King, was founder and president of the Columbia Trust Company, now Irving Trust of New York. His mother, Mary Spingler van Beuren, founder of the Campfire Girls of New Jersey, came from a family that owned the last working farm in Manhattan.
Mr. King is survived by his wife, Helen Ann; a daughter, Polly King Dodge of Manhattan and Colorado Springs; a son, Anthony, of Manhattan; a brother, Willard van Beuren King of St. Louis, and two grandchildren.
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Gordon van Beuren King's Timeline
| 1910 |
November 30, 1910
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Convent Station, New Jersey, United States
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| 1985 |
October 20, 1985
Age 74
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Cedars-Sinai Med. Ctr., Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States
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