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THE CALCULATING MACHINE


 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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Sir Michael Caine (born
Maurice Joseph Micklewhite) is 83 today.

Caine served in the Korean War for the British Army. He made his acting debut
as Hindley, a drunkard, in a 1953 production of Wuthering Heights. Other than legendary actor Jack Nicholson, he is the only actor to be nominated for an
Academy Award in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s.

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Sir Michael Caine (Maurice Joseph Micklewhite) is 82 today.

Michael Caine served in the Korean War for the British Army. He
was knighted in 2000.

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