William Seward Burroughs I
(January 28, 1855 – September 15, 1898)
Burroughs was an inventor born in Rochester, New York
who 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 Corporation to
form Unisys.
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