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Burroughs Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company and was assimilated in the 1986 merger that ...
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Eureka Adding Machine Carriage with Burroughs Adding Machine, 1905 ... marketed its improved Burroughs Registering Accountant in 1892 for $475 (Kidwell 2000). In 1905, the company was renamed the Burroughs Adding Machine Co.
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In The Adding Machine, Burroughs cuts to the chase, and is brutally honest about politics, junk, sex, and his friend Jack Kerouac. But, with all this plain language, something is lost from excluding the use of his trademark style of prose.
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First, the pithy. From Gawker, a blog post about criminals tweeting from jail, such as “The ... In contrast, New York Times blogger Alison Leigh Cowan discusses one college working to educate inmates to lower rates of recidivism: ... Cowan discusses the selective admission process for prisoners in Wesleyan’s program:
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To use a Burroughs adding machine, an operator first pushed down the digits on the keyboard for the number to be added. Pulling the crank forward caused the entry to print. Releasing the crank added the number to those already entered.
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The picture below shows an early Burroughs "Portable" adding machine. (It certainly wouldn't be called portable today but compared to some of Burroughs' other models which weighed 90 pounds and had floor stands it was featherweight.)
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The immense manufactory known as the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, with its 12,000 employes, its vast organization, and its yearly output of over 125,000 calculating machines, is built upon the dreams, the ambitions, the creative genius and the struggles of one man, whose name is now perpetuated in the title of...
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