Having graduated on 31 December 1891 in industrial engineering, Olivetti needed to improve his English and gain useful work experience.

Together they visited the Thomas A. Edison laboratories at Llewellyn Park, New Jersey, where they met the brilliant American inventor in person.

[…] Camillo continued the journey from Chicago to San Francisco alone, carefully writing down the things he was discovering about the United States of America.

As an assistant electrotechnical engineer at Stanford University (November 1893 - April 1894), Olivetti was able to experiment in the laboratory the different potential applications of the use of electricity.

From that point the United States always represented for Olivetti the frontier of economic modernity, the model to refer to in Italy's own industrial progress: the vivid memory of the collection of American letters, published after his death in Biella in December 1943.

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