Adriano Olivetti

Adriano Olivetti was an Italian engineer, politician, and industrialist whose entrepreneurial activity thrived on the idea that profit should be reinvested for the benefits of the whole society. He was son of the founder of Olivetti, Camillo Olivetti, and Luisa Revel, the daughter of a prominent Waldensian pastor and scholar. He was known worldwide during his lifetime as the Italian manufacturer of Olivetti typewriters, calculators, and computers. The Olivetti empire had been begun by his father. Initially, the factory, consisting of 30 workers, concentrated on electric measurement devices. By 1908, 25 years after Remington in the United States, Olivetti started to produce typewriters.