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2 unusual facts about The Burroughs


The Burroughs

Eileen Colwell, the pioneer children’s librarian worked at Hendon in the 1930s.

Hendon’s first proper fire station (1914) was built to designs by A. Welch, and superseded another close by in Church End.



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Arul Chinnaiyan

Arul Chinnaiyan received a number of other awards and prizes, including the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research and of the Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator Award from the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.

Augmented assignment

This last was the basis of the similar feature in the ALGOL compilers offered via the Burroughs B6700 systems, using the tilda symbol to stand for the variable being assigned to, so that

William Seward Burroughs I

He was a founder of the American Arithmometer Company (1886), which later became the Burroughs Adding Machine Company (1904), then the Burroughs Corporation (1953) and in 1986, merged with Sperry Corporation to form Unisys.