Talk:Carl Friden

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''According to an article on the Web (reference lost, long ago), he was born Carl Bengtsson, and when he became an adult, assumed a new surname, which that article said was Swedish custom at that time. Fridén is said to mean "peace" is Swedish (please verify); he used the accented e in the earlier days of his calculator company. ''

Moved the preceeding material to discussion page until its source can be found. --Blainster (talk) 05:00, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Woops! I'd forgotten I had added this. It's resurfaced in the main article. Will pull, if you want me to, or you could replace this pull with the more-recent one. Best recollection is that it came from a Friden, Inc. biographical document, or a document that contained biographical notes. I worked for Friden in the early 1960s, and had an intense interest in the company and its products. (Was one of the first eight EC-130 techs.)

His family might not have wanted this info. to be known; a different bio. that I read later made no mention of it.

As I recall, he treated his employees exceptionally well.

Regards, Nikevich (talk) 19:38, 10 March 2011 (UTC)