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Burroughs Newspaper and Magazine Articles
Introduction
Articles about the history of Burroughs
Articles relating to court cases and disputes
Short articles from around the world relating to Burroughs
There are many online archives of books, newspapers and magazines. On this page I will show
various articles and extracts about or related to the Burroughs Adding Machine Company
that I have found in such online archives and other online sources. If you find any
others in the archives of your own country, then please let me know at
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I have in some cases rearranged the layout of the text for the sake of readability, for
example placing columns of text from different pages side by side in the same image, or
splitting a single long column into two.
Advertisements from newspapers and magazines can be found on the
Burroughs Advertisements page.
Articles about the history of Burroughs
The History of Computing, Part 5 - William Burroughs - Growth of Statistics Spawns Invention.
(1981-08-24 Computerworld)
Articles relating to court cases and disputes
Hallwood Cash Register Company served notice of patent infringement
(1899-06-14 Evening Star, Washington DC)
Widow of William Burroughs sues trust fund for shares of stock
(1901-05-01 The St Louis Republic, Montana)
Daughter of William Burroughs sues stepmother for shares of stock
(1902-07-17 The St Louis Republic, Montana)
Burroughs refuses to pay state corporation tax.
(1909-08-04/11 The San Fransisco Call)
Burroughs pays state corporation tax.
(1909-09-23 The San Fransisco Call / 1909-11-13 Sausalito News, California)
Burroughs disputes rates charges.
(1910-02-18 San Francisco Call)
Burroughs disputes state corporation tax again.
(1910-07-10 San Francisco Call)
Burroughs sues Adder Machine Company for patent infringement.
(1911-08-12 The Washington Times, Washington DC / 1911-08-13 The Washington Herald, Washington DC)
Burroughs sued by disgruntled stockholders.
(1911-10-31 Chicago Livestock World)
Result of litigation with Felt & Tarrant
(1915-04-12 Albuquerque morning journal, New Mexico / 1915-04-13 Algemeen Handelsblad)
Felt & Tarrant win patent dispute over calculator.
(1915-06 The Pharmaceutical Era)
Burroughs Adding Machine Company vs Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company
(1917-04-10, Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit)
Short articles from around the world relating to Burroughs
Australia
The Metropolitan Board of Works vote against purchasing a Burroughs machine.
(1902-01-15 The Argus, Melbourne)
Latest Burroughs bookkeeping machines described.
(1929-09-10 The Sydney Morning Herald)
Queen visits Burroughs factory in Strathleven, Scotland
(1953-11-21 The Mercury, Tasmania)
Burroughs turns 80
(1975-01-07 The Canberra Times)
Canada
Lecture about machines used by actuaries.
(1919-03-11 McGill Daily, Montreal)
New Zealand
Report on the London business exhibition
(1911-07-27 The Grey River Argus, New Zealand)
Mechanical Wizards
(1921-12-16 The Auckland Star, New Zealand)
United Kingdom
Sale of shares for Burroughs' Registering Accountant (British and Colonial) Limited.
(1894-03-17 Sheffield Independent)
Demonstration of the Comptometer and Burroughs machines.
(1894-03-17 South Wales Daily News)
Assessment of the Burroughs adding machine
(1903-12-30 Report on the organization and working of railways in America)
Burroughs factory manager gets OBE from queen
(1957-02-09 The Glasgow Herald)
USA
Burroughs adding machine exhibited at a Roanoke bank
(1893-10-15 The Roanoke Times, Virginia)
Burroughs tested at two local banks
(1896-11-30 Rock Island Argus, Illinois)
Puff piece in praise of the Burroughs Adding Machine.
(1900-10-03 The Times, Richmond Va)
Dinner for Burroughs salesmen
(1902-12-28 The St Louis Republic, Montana)
Portrait of the company and its officers
(1904-02-21 The St. Louis Republic)
Puff piece about the company's success
(1904-08-28 The St Louis Republic, Montana)
Description of the Burroughs in a business compendium
(1905 Tools of Business)
Trialling a Burroughs convinces the Salt Lake Tribune.
(1905-07-27 The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah)
An electric Burroughs in the money order department of the LA post office.
(1906-07-08 Los Angeles Herald)
The Exchange Bank buys a Burroughs machine.
(1906-09-07 The Kennewick Courier, Washington)
The City National Bank buys a special Burroughs machine.
(1907-06-26 Bryan Morning Eagle, Texas)
Woman has Valuable Patent.
(1907-11-29 Omaha Daily Bee, Nebraska / 1907-12-06 The Norfolk Weekly News-journal, Nebraska)
An adding competition amongst bankers.
(1908-07-24 The San Fransisco Call)
Burroughs buys Universal Adding Machine Company.
(1908-08-08 The Pacific commercial advertiser, Hawaii)
Burroughs machines used for election results.
(1908-11-05 Omaha Daily Bee, Nebraska)
Full time work in all departments.
(1908-11-06 The Sun, New York)
Mesa City Bank buys Burroughs machine.
(1909-03-29 Arizona Republican)
Burroughs machines used for election results.
(1909-04-01 Omaha Daily Bee, Nebraska)
Burroughs machines used for election results.
(1909-07-12 The Evening News, Virginia)
An adding competition amongst bankers.
(1910-03-16 The Salt Lake Herald-Republican, Utah)
Lecture about advertising.
(1910-05-05/06 El Paso Herald, Texas)
An adding competition amongst bankers.
(1910-05-09 El Paso Herald, Texas)
Burroughs machines used for election results.
(1910-08-17 San Francisco Call)
Burroughs machines used for election results.
(1910-11-12 Omaha Daily Bee, Nebraska)
Lecture about advertising.
(1911-03-09/16/21 University Missourian)
Detroit grows by attracting industry.
(1911-07-01 Rock Island Argus, Illinois)
An adding competition amongst bankers.
(1912-05-30/06-07 The San Fransisco Call)
Son of William Burroughs commits suicide.
(1915-03-08 Urbana Daily Courier, Illinois)
Comparison between the Comptometer and the Burroughs adding-listing machine.
(1916-04-05
Machinery as an Aid to Accountancy, a published lecture by Lawrence R Dicksee)
Bank of Safford buys a Burroughs machine.
(1918-06-28 Graham Guardian, Arizona)
Items at the MoMA and Industrial Arts Exposition in New York.
(1934-10 Nations-Business)
Burroughs Corporation's company newspaper, the "B" Line
(1953-08 Nations Business)
John S. Coleman president of Chamber of Commerce
(1956-04 Nations Business)
Denmark
Burroughs adding machine at Danish bank
(1901-02-11 Kalmar)
Germany
Burroughs machines
(1921 Illustriertes Orga-Handbuch erprobter Büromaschinen, Ludwig Brauner and Victor Vogt)
Burroughs adding machines
(1925 Die Rechenmaschinen, Ernst Martin)
Burroughs calculator
(1925 Die Rechenmaschinen, Ernst Martin)
Burroughs machines
(1930 Organisations-Lexikon, Walter le Coutre and Walter Thoms)
The Netherlands, and Dutch East Indies
A confused article about Felt & Tarrant and Burroughs Comptometers.
(1894-03-22 Kleine Courant)
Burroughs Registering Accountant becomes available in London
(1894 03-21 Algemeen Handelsblad)
Thieves rob Burroughs' paymaster of $33000 of workers wages.
(1916-08-08 De grondwet)
One of the robbers caught.
(1916-10-26 De Volksvriend)
$13000 recovered
(1916-11-02 De Volksvriend)
Lecture about office machines.
(1952-07-09 De nieuwsgier)
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