The Burroughs adding machine company

William Burroughs (1857-1898) built his first experimental model of an adding machine with printed output in 1884. He formed the American Arithmometer Company in St Louis in 1888, and commenced manufacture in 1892. The company he founded grew to become one of the best-known names in adding and accounting machines, but Burroughs died in 1898 without ever seeing the full success of his inventions. The company relocated to Detroit in 1904, and was renamed The Burroughs Adding Machine Company in 1905 in honour of its founder. Burroughs had extensive overseas operations, and was exporting to 60 countries by the mid-1920s. Burroughs machines sold in Australia prior to the 1939-45 war were built in Detroit for the British currency system - pounds, shillings, pence, and sometimes farthings (quarter-pence).