Machinery to Relieve Brains

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 243, 22 October 1901, Page 1

Machinery to Relieve Brains

Lv commenting upon the trend of inventions, the New York World decides that laborsaving devices of the future will relieve the brain of certain routine and arduous exercises. To substantiate its point, the World -cys: “A machine which does the work of six clerks without making their mistakes has been introduced into several Chicago banks. It weighs, counts and sorts gold coins, delicately separating the worn ones—which lose four cents in value for every grain rubbed oft-- from the pieces of standard weight. Adding and change-making machines have already been long in use in banks and commercial houses. Cash-registers arc familiar savers of time and liguring. In many markets there are patent scales which indicate weights and calculate prices at the same time. ... As inventions multiply

which lignten men’s brains of a mass of clogging detail more room is left for other thiugs in the human mind and a greater freedom of mental processes is afforded. These brain-saving devices, then, must be ranked high among the instrumeutsTof progress, overcoming handicaps for the intellects that must go racing on.”