WORK-SAVING DEVICES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1928, Page 3

WORK-SAVING DEVICES

An automatic-typewriter, somewhat like a player-piano in its operation, ami which, it was claimed, does more work than three typists, was exhibited at the National Business Show at Chicago. 'Four of these machines, which one girl can supervise, do mine work than 12 individual typists, it was asserted. .A letter is written on a record, just as on a music roll, and this roll is then inserted in a cabinet. An operator merely presses r

button *■' start the • ’ - trie current, and the typewriters that are connected commence to write out tne lettei . If any inserts arc needed the machine call be stopped while the words • ire written in on tile typewriter, and the current can be turned on again" to write the rest automatically, 6 was explained. Another device (says ‘•Christian Science Monitor") was a machine that multiplies, acids, subtracts. and divides simultaneously. Tn three seconds and with a single stroke of a lever this calculator solves intricate problems, it is asserted. ) n automatic cheque-writing machine that writes a cheque, makes a record ot it. and then releases t>‘C cheque, and at any time can reveal the total amount of all cheques wnten. was also presented at the show. For cimv-en-j,. )u .p ,-f restaurant and theatre owners and other business men. a drumshaped receptacle built outside a bank to receive dcqmsits after banking hours front those who have a key to the device was shown. A chute leads from tl>o receptacle to tTie hank. Aluminum furniture composed another exhibit Of interest to the woman shopper was a small metal plate to he carried bv her. After selecting merchandise she passes the plate to the clerk who presses it down on an order hook pnoa therein* imprinting the shopper's’ name, address, and charge account number. This speeds up sales, and tends to discourse fraud, it was I said.