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Encyclopedia > Camillo Olivetti

Camillo Olivetti (born August 1868 in Ivrea - died December 1943 in Biella) was an Italian electrical engineer and founder of Olivetti & Co., SpA., the Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines.[1] August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Ivrea is a small town, with a population of slightly over 20,000 people, located in the Piemonte region of northwestern Italy. ... Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Biella (Latin: Bugella) is a town and comune in the northern Italian region of Piemonte, the capital of the province of the same name, with 45,500 inhabitants as of the 2001 census. ... Electrical Engineers design power systems… … and complex electronic circuits. ... Olivetti Lettera 22, 1950 Ing. ... A BlueGene supercomputer cabinet. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ...


See also

Adriano Olivetti (1901 Turin- 1960 Turin), Italian entrepreneur, the son of the founder of Olivetti, Camillo Olivetti Adriano Olivetti was known worldwide during his lifetime as the Italian manufacturer of Olivetti typewriters, calculators, and computers. ...

References and notes

  1. ^ Camillo Olivetti biography - olivetti.nu

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Olivetti History (1903 words)
Olivetti and C., S.p.A. - the "first Italian typewriter factory" was founded by Camillo Olivetti on 29 October 1908.
In 2001, to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Adriano Olivetti, Olivetti SpA, the Fondazione Adriano Olivetti and the Associazione Archivio Storico Olivetti organised an international conference "Building the Human City" and an exhibition "Adriano Olivetti and Town Planning".
The Olivetti family had retained control of the company when its shares were admitted for trading on the stock exchange in 1960, but in 1964 it opened up the capital to a group of banks and Italian manufacturing companies.
Olivetti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (230 words)
It was founded in 1908 in Ivrea, near Turin by Camillo Olivetti, as a typewriter manufacturer.
Olivetti's Divisumma electric calculator was launched in 1948.
In 2003 Olivetti was absorbed into the Telecom Italia group, maintaining a separate identity as Olivetti Tecnost.
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