William Seward Burroughs I
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- This article is about the inventor. For the Beat Generation writer, see William S. Burroughs.
William Seward Burroughs I (January 28, 1855 - September 14, 1898) was an American inventor, born in Rochester, New York.
Initially a bank clerk, he invented a "calculating machine" designed to calculate the area of fur skins. He was a founder of the American Arithmometer Company. He was the grandfather of William S. Burroughs the Beat Generation writer, and great-grandfather of William S. Burroughs, Jr., also a writer.
He died in Citronelle, Alabama and was interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.
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- U.S. Patent 388,116 Calculating-machine. Filed January 1885, issued August 1888.
- U.S. Patent 388,117 Calculating-machine. Filed August 1885, issued August 1888.
- U.S. Patent 388,118 Calculating-machine. Filed March 1886, issued August 1888.
- U.S. Patent 388,119 Calculating-machine. Filed November 1887, issued August 1888.
