UP-TO-DATE IDEAS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1930, Page 4

UP-TO-DATE IDEAS.

N.Z. INVENTOR’S HOPE,

[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

LONDON, January 11

Within five years, the bulk of the -. business correspondence to New Zea- \ land will be telegraphed in facsimile, declares Mr Morgan Cyprian O’Brien,. * an Auckland, who came to London, in the year 1925 with several inventions. These included a safety-window for jewellers and a safety door. Both are now marketed. A Bond Street firm installed window devices consisting of a heavy steel blind falling instantly at the window, thus precluding the smash and grab raids. The manager of the firm stated that thieves, after raiding a iiext-door firm recently, were baulked by .this .guillotine, a notice of which is prominently displayed. \ "

“It is unreasonable nowadays that letters should take six weeks to go to the Dominion,” said Mr O’Brien. “The solution, which must be'quicker than the air mail, is the use of telegraphic facsimile transmsision. By this means the Post Office here photographs the letters, and transmits the photographic matter in six not six weeks—securing secrecy by, a device which I am now working on, , which makes a simultaneous cipher of English copies, and though the mes- . sage is ordinarily typed, nobMy hut* the proper . recipients decode thf cipher.” ' ’ Mr O’Brien has many other pro* spective inventions, including an antiaircraft gunnery device, He has encountered many difficulties in London, which, he finds, is no place for investors, but he has now floated a company. *