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.
William S. Burroughs
An early Burroughs adding machine
Patent no. 388,116 on a "calculating machine"
Burroughs' grave at Bellefontaine Cemetery. His grandson William's is in the lower right.
Bellefontaine Cemetery
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Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum is a nonprofit, non-sectarian cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery, Bellefontaine has several architecturally signifi
William Seward Burroughs I
…Burroughs also received a patent for an electric alarm clock in 1892. He died in Citronelle, Mobile County, Alabama and was interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. U.S. patent 388,116 Calculating-machine. Filed January 1885, issued August 1888…
The Wainwright Tomb is on the NRHP
Busch Mausoleum, designed by Barnett, Haynes & Barnett
David R. Francis
Paramore Mausoleum