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    William Seward Burroughs I (January 28, 1857 – September 14, 1898) was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York. Burroughs was the son of a mechanic...
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    Burroughs was born into a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a grandson of inventor William Seward Burroughs I, who founded the Burroughs Corporation...
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  • William Seward Burroughs III (July 21, 1947 – March 3, 1981), also known as William S. Burroughs Jr. and Billy Burroughs, was an American novelist. He...
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  • William Seward Burroughs may refer to: William Seward Burroughs I (1857–1898), inventor of adding machine William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), author and...
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  • Seward is the name of: Seward (surname) William Seward Burroughs I (1857–1898), inventor of adding machine William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), American...
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    machine invented by William Seward Burroughs (grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs). In 1904, six years after Burroughs' death, the company...
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  • Burroughs may also refer to: William Seward Burroughs I (1857–1898), American inventor, grandfather of the writer William S. Burroughs Jr. (1947–1981), American...
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  • 1946, she began a relationship with William S. Burroughs, later becoming his common-law wife. In 1951, Burroughs killed Vollmer. He claimed, and shortly...
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  • William Seward Burroughs I (1855–1898), American inventor William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), American author and grandson of William Seward Burroughs William...
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  • novels William S. Burroughs, Jr. – American novelist, son of beat writer William S. Burroughs and great-grandson to William Seward Burroughs I, the original...
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  • Doraville, Georgia, United States William Seward Burroughs I, inventor of a calculating machine William S. Burroughs, popular writer from the Beat Generation...
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  • Blade Runner (a movie) (category Novels by William S. Burroughs)
    (a movie) is a science fiction novella by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, first published in 1979. The novella began as a story treatment...
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  • The Wild Boys (novel) (category Novels by William S. Burroughs)
    The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead is a novel by William S. Burroughs. It was first published in 1971 by Grove Press. It depicts a homosexual youth movement...
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  • producer William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), novelist, social critic, spoken-word performer; grandson of inventor William Seward Burroughs I William Seward Burroughs...
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  • Beat (2000 film) (category William S. Burroughs)
    Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs, and David Kammerer all become acquainted with Joan Vollmer, a student at Barnard College. Joan and William carry on a...
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    district. William Seward Burroughs I, adding machine inventor, founder of the Burroughs Corporation and grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs...
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  • James Grauerholz (category William S. Burroughs)
    2018. Shooting Joan Burroughs at Beats in Kansas. William Burroughs and James Grauerholz, his editor, heir and adopted son, at Burroughs' Lawrence, KS home...
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    State William H. Seward, and George Atzerodt was tasked with killing Vice President Andrew Johnson. Beyond Lincoln's death, the plot failed: Seward was...
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  • Junkie (novel) (category Novels by William S. Burroughs)
    his later work. William S. Burroughs was the grandson of William Seward Burroughs I, who founded the Burroughs Corporation. Burroughs' family was financially...
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  • (born 1807) September 14 – William Seward Burroughs I, inventor of the adding machine (born 1855) September 21 – William W. Eaton, U.S. Senator from...
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  • painter (b. 1817) 1898 – William Seward Burroughs I, American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (b. 1857) 1901 – William McKinley, American soldier...
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  • (d. 1900) 1855 – William Seward Burroughs I, American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (d. 1898) 1858 – Tannatt William Edgeworth David,...
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  • The Adding Machine: Collected Essays (category Essay collections by William S. Burroughs)
    invented by the author's grandfather, William Seward Burroughs I. Herman, Jan (17 August 1986). "William Burroughs, an inspired thief". Chicago Sun-Times...
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  • online video production company Diane Greene, founder of VMware William Seward Burroughs I Marcian E. Hoff, Jr., inventor of the microprocessor Matthew Ewing...
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    Joseph Boyer (category Burroughs Corporation people)
    of the J. Boyer Machine Co. in St. Louis, Missouri. He helped William Seward Burroughs I develop the adding machine and was the inventor of the first successful...
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  • April 5, 2024. "NIHF Inductee William Burroughs Invented the Calculator". www.invent.org. April 6, 2024. "NIHF Inductee William Burton and Catalytic Cracking"...
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    was an American Confederate soldier who attempted to assassinate William Henry Seward as part of the Lincoln assassination plot. Wounded at the Battle...
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    commercial production. To create a model based on his ideas he hired William Seward Burroughs I to perform the work in his machine shop, which he, with his father...
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  • time clock for recording employee working hours. Theodore Burr William Seward Burroughs I, born in Rochester, was an inventor. Paolo Busti John Warren Butterfield...
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    × or T key. Sometimes, the plus key is even labeled thus: +⁄= William Seward Burroughs received a patent for his adding machine on August 25, 1888. He...
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