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William Seward Burroughs (January 28, 1857 - September 14, 1898) was an American inventor, born in Rochester, New York. Download high resolution version (838x1200, 207 KB)Drawing for a Calculating Machine, 08/21/1888. ... Download high resolution version (838x1200, 207 KB)Drawing for a Calculating Machine, 08/21/1888. ... An adding machine is a type of calculator. ... January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years). ... 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... An inventor is a person who creates new inventions, typically technical devices such as mechanical, electrical or software devices or methods. ... Rochester, also known as both The Flower City, and The Flour City, is a city in Monroe County, New York, United States. ...

Initially a bank clerk, he invented a "calculating machine" designed to calculate the area of fur skins. He was a founder of the American Arithmometer Company. He was the grandfather of William S. Burroughs the writer. An adding machine is a type of calculator. ... William Seward Burroughs (1857-1898), US inventor William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), author and grandson of William Seward Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), American author of Tarzan fame The Burroughs Corporation began in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company in St. ... William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs (February 5, 1914 â€“ August 2, 1997) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic and spoken word performer. ...

He died in Citronelle, Alabama and was interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. Citronelle is a city located in Mobile County, Alabama. ... Bellefontaine Cemetery (established in 1849) and the Roman Catholic Calvary Cemetery (established in 1857) in St. ... The Gateway Arch, shown here behind the Old Courthouse, is the most recognizable part of the St. ...

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William S. Burroughs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1626 words)
	Burroughs was born to a prominent family in St.
	Burroughs' mother, Laura Lee Burroughs, was the daughter of a distinguished minister whose family claimed to be descendants of Robert E. Lee.
	Burroughs attended John Burroughs School in St. Louis, and The Los Alamos Ranch School in New Mexico, but was expelled from the latter because staff had found private journals concerning a budding erotic attachment to another boy.

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	William Burroughs died on Saturday August 2, 1997 at 6:50 pm in Lawrence, Kansas where he had lived since 1981.The apparent cause of his death was a heart attack suffered on Friday August 1.
	William Burroughs was the grandson of the founder of the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which evolved into the Burroughs Corporation, which made huge, now outdated mainframe computers.
	Burroughs followed this by a similar study of his homosexuality, 'Queer,' but this was too much even for the pulps, and would not be published for decades.

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