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The writer was established, but the naturalist was not. Naturalist John Burroughs called Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton a nature faker. So the younger man wrote his learned, monumental (eight volumes) Lives of Game Animals (sales: a piddling 2,650 copies). Later the John Burroughs Memorial Association made amends by giving...
Five years lafer Burroughs thought he had perfected his "Arithometer." He built 50 machines, but couldn't sell them: nobody but Burroughs could make them work. After five more years Burroughs perfected his machine. But bankers were not interested. Bank clerks (who could do more than add) were cheap...
In four years, the American Arithometer Co. sold only 1,000 machines. Burroughs died and his successor moved the company to Detroit, for a reason that seemed fantastic to weather-beaten Detroiters. He liked the climate. Sales rose steadily, and by 1941, the Burroughs Adding Machine Co. (the name was...
When war came, Burroughs got the job of making Navy Norden bombsights and handed it to John Coleman. He worked out a system of mass production (previously believed impossible because of the half-millionth-of-an-inch tolerances). Said Coleman of the famed secret sight: "Its only secret . . . was extreme...
Coleman did such a bang-up job that when President Alfred J. Doughty retired, there was no competition for his $36,000-a-year job. Now Coleman, who will boss operations (new board chairman Laurence V. Britt will lay down policy), intends to cut out at least 80% of Burroughs...