Family tree of Dorr FELT
Inventor, Industrialist, Businessman
Born Dorr Eugene FELT
American inventor and industrialist who was known for having invented the Comptometer, an early computing device, and the Comptograph, the first printing adding machine
Born on March 18, 1862 in Newark, Wisconsin, USA , United States
Died on August 7, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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At 16, "his bent of mind, leaning towards mechanics, led him to seek work in a machine shop in Beloit where he found his first employment in the spring of 1878."
... Dorr E. Felt was born in Newark, Wisconsin where he grew up on the family farm and which he left at age 14 to seek employment.
At 16, "his bent of mind, leaning towards mechanics, led him to seek work in a machine shop in Beloit where he found his first employment in the spring of 1878."
At 18, he started to learn French and eventually spoke it fluently.
In early 1882, at age 20, he came to Chicago and worked as foreman of a rolling mill that had a daily output valued at $2,000.
During the US Thanksgiving holidays of 1884 he decided to build the prototype of a new calculating machine that he had invented. Because of his limited amount of money, he used a macaroni box for the outside box, and skewers, staples and rubber bands for the mechanism inside. It was finished soon after New Year's Day, 1885.
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