LIGHTS AS PAGES
, Guests at a new hotel recently opened in London, England, are "paged?' by their room numbers instead of by name (says "Popular Science"). They do not, however, hear a bell boy rushing through tho lobby shouting, for them. Instead, an- electric indicator on a' wall of each public room flashes their number. A notice above the indicator box; states that there is a message waiting for them at the inquiry office. Pour sets of numbers can be flashed by each indicator, so four guests can be called at one time. Guests, it is said, find this system an improvement on the old method of paging by bell boys, since the boys often mispronounced their names so that they were unrecognisable. The lights come on in each of the public rooms simultaneously. A guest has no excuse-for missing a call, provided he can remember his room nunibor and sees the signal, v
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 83, 5 October 1931, Page 3
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154LIGHTS AS PAGES Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 83, 5 October 1931, Page 3
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