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The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company by William Seward Burroughs. In 1986, it merged with Sperry UNIVAC to form Unisys. The company's history paralleled many of the major developments in computing.
The Burroughs Corporation began as the Burroughs Adding Machine Company in 1905, producing the world’s first practical adding machines, which had been perfected by the inventor William Seward Burroughs a decade or so before.
The Burroughs Corporation began in 1886 as the American Arithmometer (adding machine) Company in St. Louis, Missouri selling an Arithmometer invented by William Seward Burroughs. The company moved to Detroit in 1904 and changed its name to the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, in honor of Burroughs, who died in 1898.
Learn about the history of Burroughs Corporation, a pioneer in mechanical and electronic calculating machines and computers. Explore nine brochures from the Computer History Museum collection.
The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company and after the 1 …
The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company and was assimilated in the 1986 merger that resulted in the creation of Unisys.
With annual revenue in 1982 approaching $4.2 billion, and worldwide employment of 62,000, the story of Burroughs Corporation has been one of responding to the human problems of the times with relevant technologies, just as William S. Burroughs had done for accountants in 1885.
