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.

Surrealist, satirist and beat generation figure William Burroughs has been an inspirational source of ideas for musicians over the years. But the first time his work was used as a wellspring by a band ...

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 ...

Jack Kerouac, Author, William S. Burroughs, Author, Ray Porter, Read by, read by Ray Porter. Blackstone Audio $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-4912-9 Distinctly different from their later works ...

William S. Burroughs, the maverick writer, artist, and cultural provocateur whose work defied convention, reshaping the ...