Burroughs Corporation
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The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company by William Seward Burroughs. The company's histo
Burroughs (Payment Systems), Inc., in Plymouth, Michigan, 2011
1914 advertisement
An early Burroughs adding machine
Desktop model in use around 1910
William Seward Burroughs I
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William Seward Burroughs I was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York, most prominently known as the inventor of a mechanical calculator.
Burroughs Corporation
…Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company by William Seward Burroughs. The company's history paralleled many of the major developments in computing. At its start, it produced mechanical adding machines, and later moved…
William S. Burroughs
Patent no. 388,116 on a "calculating machine"
Burroughs' grave at Bellefontaine Cemetery. His grandson William's is in the lower right.