Today in 1888, William Seward Burroughs of St. Louis, Missouri was granted four patents for a “calculating machine.”
The Bankers’ Magazine reported in August 1894 that "An ingenious adding machine, recently introduced in Providence banks, is said to be infallible in results, and to do the work of two or three active clerks.” in
In 1886, Burroughs founded the American Arithmometer Company which was reorganized as the Burroughs Adding Machine Company in 1905.
Seventy years ago, renamed Burroughs Corporation, the company entered the computer market. In September 1986, Burroughs Corporation merged with Sperry Corporation to form Unisys.