Inventor: Burroughs

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“There’s an end to my troubles,” said William Seward Burroughs as he threw into the street the first fifty adding machines he had made. He wished nothing to remain to remind him of this early failure.” -Hill, 1921

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inventor, business, inventions, manufacture, adding machine, William Seward Burroughs, frustration, failure

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Hill, Henry Chase The Wonder Book of Knowledge (Philadelphia, PA: John C. Winston Company, 1921)

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