[John Lawson wrote]
> > 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.
[John Allain replied]
> 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.
I just did that and came up with this site
http://www.invent.org/book/book-text/17.html
which contradicts Mr. Lawson's "destructive jam" theory (no offense to John
L.) and supports the ideas I put forth in my previous post.
Glen -- William S. Burroughs fan since 1973
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Received on Mon Jan 07 2002 - 00:30:45 GMT