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\"portrait\"The early years (1893-1915).<\/h1>\n

The company was created by a Swiss engineer, H.W. Egli (1862-1925), first in Munich, in the year 1893. Then H.W. Egli returned to his fatherland in 1898 and created a workshop in the centre of Zuerich, before moving definitively in Wollishofen, in the year 1904. At this time, Wollishofen was a municipality of its own. The village was composed of isolated farms and had a population of 1800 inhabitants. Notwithstanding the wish of the people, in 1893, this village will be incorporated, as a suburb, in the city of Zuerich, losing its autonomy.

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Wollishofen in 1880<\/p><\/div>\n

The purpose was to develop and market a computing machine. H.W. Egli had a friend named Otto Steiger<\/a> (1858-1923), \"800px-Ordi-mecanique-IMG_0517\"<\/a>a brilliant engineer from St-Gallen. The latter designed a machine, based on the previous approach of L\u00e9on Boll\u00e9e<\/a>. In 1892, Otto Steiger received his first patent for a calculating machine, able to make direct multiplications, without using the method of continuous series of additions. The machine used a mechanical representation of the multiplication table to form partial products. This mechanism, capable of reading values from a notched Pythagorean multiplication table had been patented in 1878 by Ramon Verea.<\/p>\n

In 1896, the machine was ready. For the first time, a direct multiplication calculating machine could be produced on a commercial basis. Numerous changes were made by H.W. Egli before entry into production, and finally, in 1897, the machine was produced by H.W. Egli A.G.<\/i> under the name \u201cMillionaire\u201d. We do not know actually the reason for choosing this term.<\/p>\n

In spite of the expensive price of the machine, about 5000 \u201cMillionaire\u201d were sold between 1897 and 1935. Rapidly, this machine got a dominant position on the world market. Several improvements were made during this period, (1911-1927), with, for example, addition of a motor and a keyboard.

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Some models of the Millionaire<\/h2><\/span>
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With transparency<\/h2><\/span>
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Useful links<\/h4><\/span>
<\/div><\/div><\/div>\nJohn Wolff’s Web museum – The Millionaire<\/a><\/p>\n

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