William Seward Burroughs I
- William Seward Burroughs I
William Seward Burroughs I (January 281857 – September 141898) was an American inventor, born in Rochester, New York.
Initially a bank clerk, he invented a "calculating machine" designed to ease the monotony of clerical work. He was a founder of the American Arithmometer Company (1886), which later became the Burroughs Adding Machine Company (1904), then the Burroughs Corporation (1953) and in 1986, merged with Sperry to form Unisys. He was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He was the grandfather of William S. Burroughs the Beat Generation writer, and great-grandfather of William S. Burroughs, Jr., also a writer.
He died in Citronelle, Alabama and was interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.
Patents
*US patent|388116 "Calculating-machine." Filed January 1885, issued August 1888.
*US patent|388117 "Calculating-machine." Filed August 1885, issued August 1888.
*US patent|388118 "Calculating-machine." Filed March 1886, issued August 1888.
*US patent|388119 "Calculating-machine." Filed November 1887, issued August 1888.
External links
* [http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/cbi00090a.xml Burroughs Corporation Records] Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Collection contains the records of the Burroughs Corporation, and its predecessors the American Arithmometer Company and Burroughs Adding Machine Company.
* [http://fi.edu/case_files/burroughs/ William S. Burroughs] biography and science resources at The Franklin Institute's Case Files online exhibit
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2979 William Seward Burroughs' Photo & Gravesite]
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