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Sellenraad describes his long association with Burroughs Adding Machine Company, and the impact of World Wars I & II on the sales and service of calculators, and adding and bookkeeping machines in Europe. Oral history interview with Ovid M. Smith Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota. Smith reviews his 46½ year career at Burroughs ...
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 .
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 introduced its Burroughs Class 3 visible adding machines based on the Pike design. Also in 1911, Burroughs introduced ...
Patent drawing for Burroughs's calculating machine, 1888. 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.
An accounting machine, or bookkeeping machine or recording-adder, was generally a calculator and printer combination tailored for a specific commercial activity such as billing, payroll, or ledger. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Accounting machines were widespread from the early 1900s to 1980s, [ 3 ] but were rendered obsolete by the availability of low-cost ...
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
He helped William Seward Burroughs I develop the adding machine and was the inventor of the first successful rivet gun. As the third president of the American Arithmometer Company , in the first of a series of business moves designed to eliminate the competition, in 1903 he secretly agreed to acquire the Addograph Manufacturing Company . [ 3 ]
1949: The IBM 024 Card Punch, 026 Printing Card Punch, 082 Sorter, 403 Accounting machine, 407 Accounting machine, and Card Programmed Calculator (CPC) introduced. [52] 1952: Bull Gamma 3 introduced. [53] [54] An electronic calculator with delay-line memory, programmed by a connection panel, that was connected to a tabulator or card reader ...