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Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company

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The Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Company was founded to manufacture the Comptometer, invented by Dorr Eugene Felt and patented in 1887. This machine was the first truly practical and commercially successful adding machine, with the first serious manufacture and sales occuring in 1888.

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Company TypeHardware
Date Formed1887
Founder(s)
Dorr Eugene Felt and Robert Tarrant
CEO
Dorr Eugene Felt
Address

Chicago, IL
United States



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