Users of the railroad Burroughs

Detroit: Burroughs, 1909. Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Railroad Department. Users of the railroad Burroughs. Detroit: Burroughs Adding Machine Company, January 15, 1909. Original printed wrappers. [2], 20 [2]pp. Illustrated. 230 x 100 mm. This advertising brochure for the electric version of the Burroughs Railroad Machine includes a list of users of both manual and electric versions. One of a series of brochures promoting the Burroughs Railroad Machine, Style 15. Each of the brochures is aimed at a specific branch of a railroad accounting department. The Burroughs Adding Machine Company designed mechanical calculating machines specially adapted (truncated) to railroad accounting needs and established its own Railroad Department, the purpose of which was “to get in very close touch with the accounting of the railroads of the United States and Canada” and to advise railroads how Burroughs machines could be used to effect shortcuts in accounting. Origins of Cyberspace 233. . (Inventory #: 44644)