Adriano Olivetti

Adriano Olivetti (11 April 1901 to 27 February 1960) was an Italian engineer, entrepreneur, politician and industrialist, known worldwide during his lifetime as the Italian manufacturer of Olivetti brand typewriters, calculators and computers. He was the son of Camillo Olivetti, the founder of Olivetti, and Luisa Revel, the daughter of a prominent Waldensian pastor and scholar. He transformed the shop-like operations of the Olivetti factory, which initially had 30 workers and concentrated on electric measurement devices, into a modern factory, and he founded the utopian system of the Community Movement. In his company he enrolled a large number of artists such as writers and architects, and he became the director of Olivetti in 1932 and its president in 1938.