A PHOTOGRAPHIC TELL-TALE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1370, 14 October 1886, Page 2

A PHOTOGRAPHIC TELL-TALE.

A wealthy Ironmaster in the North of England, whose house and works are dazzlingly illuminated by the electric light, has adopted an ingenious contrivance. by which he may glean some Information as to what goes on during his not nnfrequent absences from home. In several of bis -rooms, and in his offices, there is a cmcealed apparatus in the walls, consisting of a roll of Eastman paper and a train of clockwork. Every hour a shutter is silently opened by the machinery, sod an instantaneous photograph is taken cf all that is going on in the room. On the great man’s return, he delights to develop these pictures, and It is said, that they have furnished some very strange information indeed. One clerk, who received his dismissal somewhat unexpectedly, and boldly wanted to know the reason why, was horrified when shown a photograph in which he was depicted lolling in an easy chair, with his feet upon the office desk, while the oloek on the mart dplece pointed t > an hoar at which he ought to have been at his busiest. The servants’ party in the beet dialogroom furnished another thrilling scene | —-Amateur Photographer.