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William Seward Burroughs I
FollowBorn 28 January 1857 in Rochester, New York, USA
Died 15 September 1898 (aged 41)
William Seward Burroughs I was an American inventor and best known for the "calculating machine" ,first patent filed in 1885, designed to ease the monotony of clerical work. He was the gran father of the writer William S. Burroughs (1914-1997).
