Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foresight. In Lamar, Colo., Carl Moore stepped into an insurance office, got a policy on his new car, stepped out, found the car had been stolen...
Anyone who is baffled by mathematics beyond the multiplication tables can imagine with awe the Brobdingnagian mental efforts involved in inventing a clerkproof, 5,500-part machine that adds, subtracts, multiplies and divides with the flick of a finger. Last week a 52-year-old Swedish inventor named Carl M. Fridé celebrated the tenth anniversary of the second time he had invented such a machine. Moreover, although the principle of an accurate calculator is already 123 years old, Carl Fridén's second model was further complicated by the fact that he could not infringe...
Going Forward. All this started in August 1914 when young Carl, a mechanical engineer for the Swedish Match Trust, arrived in Sydney, Australia to build a match factory on the very day that Germany and Great Britain went...
...late 1918 Fridén was a Marchant draftsman, with an eye for profits rare in a mathematician-inventor. When the U.S. Government made Marchant discontinue its current model because it violated some German patents, young Carl filled the void with his own model-for $100,000 plus $1 on every machine sold. The next Marchant crisis-a patent battle with Monroe Calculating Machine Co., the only direct Marchant competitor-ended up with peace and cross-licensing for the two companies; a neat $225,000 cash-and-consultant deal (plus stock) for Frid...
...first small, wiry Carl Fridén had to sell his machine for cash in advance - he hadn't even a model to demonstrate. But by last week his big plant, built in a San Leandro cherry orchard, employed more than 1,300 workers and was the No. 1 U.S. producer of rotary calculators (as distinguished from the simpler key-driven types). And closemouthed Carl celebrated his wonder machine's tenth anniversary by giving out the nearest thing yet to a financial statement for his closed corporation...