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William Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the first workable adding machine, was born in rural New York in 1855. In the 1870s, he was working as a bank clerk at the Cayuga County National Bank in Auburn, New York, where he became interested in solving the problem of creating an adding machine. There had been a number of earlier prototypes, but, in inexperienced users’ hands, those that existed would sometimes give incorrect, and at times outrageous, answers.
In St. Louis, Missouri in the early 1880s, Burroughs was working for the Boyer Machine Company, where he began designing his own adding machine prototype. His design included a “dash pot,” or a mechanism that regulated the pull on the machine’s handle. He was granted a patent for the device in 1888. Two years before the patent came through, he founded the American Arithmometer Company company with three other men—Thomas Metcalfe, R.M. Scruggs, and W.C. Metcalfe—to produce and sell the machine. The straight adding and listing machine Burroughs had invented was the company’s only product. Its purchase price was $
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William Seward Burroughs I
American inventor and businessman (1857–1898)
William Seward Burroughs I (January 28, 1857 – September 14, 1898) was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York.[1][2]
Life and career
Personal life
Burroughs was the son of a mechanic and worked with machines throughout his childhood. While a small boy, his parents moved to Auburn, New York, where he and his brothers were educated in public schools.
He married his wife, Ida (née Selover) in 1879. They had two sons and two daughters: Jennie, Horace, Mortimer (father of William S. Burroughs II), and Helen.[1]
Inventor
In 1875, he started working as a bank clerk. Much of his job consisted of laboriously reviewing ledgers for errors.[1] Burroughs then became interested in developing an adding machine. At the bank, there had been a number of prototypes, but in inexperienced hands, they would sometimes give incorrect answers. Burroughs' did not find his clerical work agreeable, as he was fond of mechanics. He resigned after
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William S. Burroughs
American writer and visual artist (1914–1997)
For other people named William Burroughs, see William Burroughs (disambiguation).
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| Born | William Seward Burroughs II (1914-02-05)February 5, 1914 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | August 2, 1997(1997-08-02) (aged 83) Lawrence, Kansas, U.S. |
| Pen name | William Lee |
| Occupation | Author |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) |
| Genre | Beat literature, surrealism, satire |
| Literary movement | Beat Generation, postmodernism, science fiction |
| Notable works | Junkie (1953) Naked Lunch (1959) The Nova Trilogy (1961–1964) Cities of the Red Night (1981) The Place of Dead Roads (1983) |
| Spouse | Ilse Klapper (1937–1946)[1] Joan Vollmer (1946–1951) |
| Children | William S. Burroughs Jr. |
| Relatives | William Seward Burroughs I (grandfather) Ivy Lee (maternal uncle) |
William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Genera
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