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Joseph Boyer
Joseph E. Boyer
(1848 – October 24, 1930) was a
Canadian-American
inventor
and
computer
industrialist
. Boyer was President of the J. Boyer Machine Co. in
St. Louis, Missouri
. He helped
William Seward Burroughs I
develop the
adding machine
and was the inventor of the first successful
rivet gun
. As the third president of the
American Arithmometer Company
, in the first of a series of business moves designed to eliminate the competition, in 1903 he secretly agreed to acquire the Addograph Manufacturing Company. Then in 1905 Boyer relocated the entire company from St. Louis to
Detroit, Michigan
at which point the company name was changed to the
Burroughs Adding Machine Company
. He served as president until 1920.
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