William Seward Burroughs
1855-1898
American inventor of the calculator. The earliest seeds of Burroughs's passion for invention were planted while tinkering in his father's machine shop ...
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William Seward Burroughs (January 28, 1855-September 15, 1898), inventor, was born in Auburn, Cayuga County, New York, the second son of Edmund and Ellen Julia Burroughs, and third child in a family o...
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Born in Auburn, New York, Burroughs began tinkering in his father's machine shop early in his childhood--a hobby that he continued throughout most of his life. While he was clerking in a bank at age 1...
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William Seward Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs