TICK OR NO TICK
A MACHINE INVENTION
(United Pr-'ss Association-- By Electric Telegraph— Copyright).
(Received this day at 9.25. a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 19.
The “Daily Mail” .states: “Tick or no tick” will literally be the answer of a machine with which a leading nondon Department Store is experimenting. It will decide automatically whether ihe customer is entitled to credit. The customer operates a key invisible and inaudible to the customer, spelling out tiie customers name, and the cost of the intended purchase. She hears an immediate mechanical tick transmitted from the apparatus nerve centre in the office. She is aware, if lick, in a monetary sense, can he extended. If no tick comes from the office there is no- tick to the customer.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1928, Page 6
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