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From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
Date: Sun Jan 6 10:15:30 2002

> I believe that in actual fact, Burroughs, after a few years of
> night-and-day work on his mechanical calculator design, including
> tossing one finished prototype out a second story window in frustration,
> patented the *application* of a hydraulic damper to the actuator crank.

This is an interesting and worthy topic.
Just enter "William Seward Burroughs" into a search engine to
verify what John said. That's the name of both the calculator
inventor and the writer, but the writer seldom used his middle
name, making it a good search string.

John A.
Received on Sun Jan 06 2002 - 10:15:30 GMT