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The Complete History of The Burroughs Adding Machine
The Burroughs Adding Machine was invented by one William Seward Burroughs in the late 1800s as a solution to a common issue he faced: having to tirelessly count numbers at his bank job.
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“If I were you, I’d get a haircut and disappear”: When author William Burroughs gave Daevid Allen permission to call his band The Soft Machine
A key moment in the Canterbury band’s history came when the future Gong mastermind made contact with his former collaborator ...
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William Hopkins – Biography, History and Inventions
William Wallace Hopkins was born ... such as that of the Burroughs machine, which had 81 keys. The Standard Adding Machine could perform addition and subtraction, and print the calculation on ...
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William S. Burroughs: Rare and Unseen Artworks On Show in London
William S. Burroughs, the maverick writer, artist, and cultural provocateur whose work defied convention, reshaping the ...