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William Seward Burroughs I
January 28, 1857September 15, 1898 (aged 41)Rochester, New York, USA
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).
