Editing Adding machine (section)

==Burroughs's calculating machine==
[[Image:CalculatingMachinePatentBurroughs.jpg|thumb|right|[[Patent drawing]] for Burroughs's calculating machine, 1888.]]
[[William Seward Burroughs I|William Seward Burroughs]] received a patent for his adding machine on August 25, 1888. He was a founder of American Arithmometer Company, which became [[Burroughs Corporation]] and  evolved to produce electronic billing machines and mainframes, and eventually merged with [[Sperry Corporation|Sperry]] to form [[Unisys]]. The grandson of the inventor of the adding machine is [[Beat Generation|Beat]] author [[William S. Burroughs]]; a collection of his essays is called ''The Adding Machine''.