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Biography of Adriano Olivetti
Name: Adriano Olivetti
Birth Date: April 11, 1901
Death Date: February 28, 1960
Place of Birth: Ivrea, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: manufacturer
Adriano Olivetti
Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960) was known worldwide during his lifetime as the Italian manufacturer of Olivetti typewriters, calculators, and computers.Olivetti was an entrepreneur and innovator who transformed shop-like operations into a modern factory. In and out of the factory, he both practiced and preached the utopian system of "the community movement," but he was not an astute enough politician to have a mass following.The Olivetti empire was begun by his father Camillo, an Italian of Spanish origin. His ancestors escaping the Inquisition arrived in Turin around 1600. Initially, the "factory" (30 workers) concentrated on electric measurement devices. By 1908 (25 years after Remington in the United States) Olivetti started to produce typewriters.Camillo, an engineer and innovator, believed that his children could get a better education at home. Adriano's formative years were spent under the tutelage of his mother, an educated and sober woman. Also, as a socialist, Camillo emphasized the non-differentiation between manual …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…large began withering away even before Adriano's death in 1960.Adriano Olivetti's era saw great changes in Italian business and in industrial relations. New organizational methods were sought and humanistic idealism spread during the cruel time of World War II as well as during the difficult post-war years. The utopia of Olivetti could not have easily survived, but it helped induce the rapid reconversion of Italy's industry from war to peace-time production. Further Reading Most of the biographical sources describing Olivetti are in Italian: Valerio Ochetto, Adriano Olivetti (Milan, 1985); M. Fabbri, A. Greco, L. Menozzi, E. Valeriani, editors, Architetura urbanistica in Italia nel dopoguerra (Reggio Calabria, 1986); Bruno Caizzi, Gli Olivetti (Turin, 1962); and Renzo De Felice, Storia degli ebrei italiani sotto il fascismo (Turin, 1961). Adriano Olivetti, "Corrispondenza per gli Stati Uniti" (Milan, 1953) was translated as Italy, Community versus Communism (1953). Some of Olivetti's writings were published in English as Society, State, Community (London, 1954).
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