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EspañolWILLIAM SEWARD BURROUGHS I
:''This article is about the inventor. For the Beat Generation writer, see William S. Burroughs.''
'William Seward Burroughs I' (January 281855 - September 141898) was an American inventor, born in Rochester, New York.
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.
He died in Citronelle, Alabama and was interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.
★ ''Calculating-machine.'' Filed January 1885, issued August 1888.
★ ''Calculating-machine.'' Filed August 1885, issued August 1888.
★ ''Calculating-machine.'' Filed March 1886, issued August 1888.
★ ''Calculating-machine.'' Filed November 1887, issued August 1888.
★ William S. Burroughs biography and science resources at The Franklin Institute's Case Files online exhibit
Patent no. 388,116 on a "calculating machine".
'William Seward Burroughs I' (January 281855 - September 141898) was an American inventor, born in Rochester, New York.
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.
He died in Citronelle, Alabama and was interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.
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| Patents |
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Patents
★ ''Calculating-machine.'' Filed January 1885, issued August 1888.
★ ''Calculating-machine.'' Filed August 1885, issued August 1888.
★ ''Calculating-machine.'' Filed March 1886, issued August 1888.
★ ''Calculating-machine.'' Filed November 1887, issued August 1888.
External links
★ William S. Burroughs biography and science resources at The Franklin Institute's Case Files online exhibit
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