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| Born | Dorr Eugene Felt March 18, 1862 Beloit, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Died | August 7, 1930 (aged 68) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Burial place | Rosehill Cemetery 41°59′15″N 87°40′53″W / 41.987428°N 87.681389°W |
| Occupation(s) | Inventor, businessman |
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Dorr Eugene Felt (March 18, 1862 – August 7, 1930) was an American inventor and industrialist who was known for having invented the Comptometer,[1] an early computing device, and the Comptograph, the first printing adding machine. The Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company that he co-founded with Robert Tarrant on January 25, 1889[2] remained a major player in the calculator industry until the mid-1970s.
- ^ Detroit in its world setting; a 250-year chronology, 1701–1951. 1953. p. 168. Retrieved December 7, 2009.
- ^ J. Turk, p. 75 (1921)