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William Seward Burroughs I (January 28, 1857 – September 14, 1898) was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York. [1] [2] Life and career. Personal life. Burroughs was the son of a mechanic and worked with machines throughout his childhood.
William Seward Burroughs (born January 28, 1855, Auburn, New York, U.S.—died September 15, 1898, Citronelle, Alabama) was an American inventor of the first recording adding machine and pioneer of its manufacture.
William Seward Burroughs may refer to: William Seward Burroughs I (1857–1898), inventor of adding machine. William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), author and grandson of the above. William S. Burroughs Jr. (1947–1981), author and son of the above.
William Seward Burroughs invented the first practical adding and listing machine. Born in Rochester, New York, Burroughs began his career as a bank clerk.
William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the first workable adding machine, was born in rural New York in 1855. In the 1870s, he was working as a bank clerk at the Cayuga County National Bank in Auburn, New York, where he became interested in solving the problem of creating an adding machine.
William Seward Burroughs (ca 1855-1898), the son of a machinist in upstate New York, spent some years working as a clerk before moving to St. Louis and taking up invention. From 1884, he attracted investors to aid in his development of a printing adding machine.
Inventor-entrepreneur William Seward Burroughs was born 28 January 1855 in Auburn, New York. Having to support himself from the age of 15, he was employed at various jobs and also worked on his own inventions.
