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Encyclopedia > William Seward Burroughs I
Patent no. 388,116 on a "calculating machine".
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Patent no. 388,116 on a "calculating machine".

William Seward Burroughs I (January 28, 1855 - 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. ... adding machine Older adding machine. ... January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... September 14 is the 257th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (258th in leap years). ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... An inventor is a person who creates new inventions, typically technical devices such as mechanical, electrical or software devices or methods. ... Nickname: The Flour City, The Flower City, The Worlds Image Center Motto: Rochester: Made for Living Location of Rochester in New York State Country United States State New York County Monroe Mayor Robert Duffy Area    - City 37. ...


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 Beat Generation writer, and great-grandfather of William S. Burroughs, Jr., also a writer. adding machine Older adding machine. ... 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 Seward Burroughs II (pronounced ) (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ... Cover of Ohles book showing father and son. ...


He died in Citronelle, Alabama and was interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. Citronelle is a city in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. ... Bellefontaine Cemetery (established in 1849) and the Roman Catholic Calvary Cemetery (established in 1857) in St. ... Nickname: Gateway City, Gateway to the West, or Mound City Location in the state of Missouri Coordinates: Country United States State Missouri County Independent City Mayor Francis G. Slay (D) Area    - City 66. ...


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  • U.S. Patent 388,116 Calculating-machine. Filed January 1885, issued August 1888.
  • U.S. Patent 388,117 Calculating-machine. Filed August 1885, issued August 1888.
  • U.S. Patent 388,118 Calculating-machine. Filed March 1886, issued August 1888.
  • U.S. Patent 388,119 Calculating-machine. Filed November 1887, issued August 1888.

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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.
William Burroughs - Biography (2045 words)
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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