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An early Burroughs adding machine Patent no. 388,116 on a "calculating machine". William Seward Burroughs I (January 28, 1857 – September 14, 1898) was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York .
William Seward Burroughs received a patent for his adding machine on August 25, 1888. He was a founder of American Arithmometer Company, which became Burroughs Corporation and evolved to produce electronic billing machines and mainframes, and eventually merged with Sperry to form Unisys .
The Adding Machine: Collected Essays is a collection of essays written by Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs. [1] [2] This collection was first published in the United Kingdom in 1985, followed by an American edition in 1986.
By contrast, Dalton Adding Machine and the Standard Adding Machine Company had more modern ten-key keyboards. [6] By 1910 Burroughs offered 74 models with between 6 and 17 columns of keys and began advertising some of its models as bookkeeping machines. In 1911 there were 78 Burroughs models ranging in price from $175 to $850 and Burroughs ...
His grandfather, William Seward Burroughs I, had founded the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which evolved into the Burroughs Corporation. His mother was Laura Hammond Lee Burroughs, whose brother, Ivy Lee, was an advertising pioneer later employed as a publicist for the Rockefellers.
1914 advertisement An early Burroughs adding machine Desktop model in use around 1910. In 1886, the American Arithmometer Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri, to produce and sell an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs (grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs).
The Apple TV+ series 'Manhunt' depicts all of the intended victims of the assassination plot which led to the death of Lincoln, including William H. Seward.
William Seward Burroughs may refer to: William Seward Burroughs I (1857–1898), inventor of adding machine; William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), author and grandson of the above; William S. Burroughs Jr. (1947–1981), author and son of the above