Dorr Felt

Name: Dorr Eugene Felt

Born: March 18, 1862, in Newark, Wisconsin, USA

Death: August 7, 1930 (Age: 68)

Computer-related contributions

• American inventor and industrialist best known for inventing the Comptometer, an early computing device, and the Comptograph, the first printing adding machine.

Significant publications

• Mechanical Arithmetic, or The History of the Counting Machine (1916).

Honors and awards

• John Scott Medal, The Franklin Institute (1889).