AN INVENTOR’S BIRTHDAY.
INTERESTING ADVENTURES. , United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Jan. 15. Broadcasting in celebration of his eighty-eighth birthday, Sir Alfred Yarrow, a shipbuilding engineer, revealed his remarkable association with two epoch making inventions. Yarrow’s adventures en the road in 1861, with a steam carnage, led to legislation forbidding the use of engine driven vehicles unless a inan'/ walked ahead carrying a red This provision was not repealed until the Motor Act in 1896. It is also disclosed that he was the first Englishman to use the typewriter. The first batch was imported from America in 1876. During landing, a case containing a dozen fell into the dock and when washed from the mud no one knew what they were. Yarrow and a friend purchased a dozen for a few shillings and had them cleaned and oiled. In response, to an advertisement for a shorthand -: E writer who could play the piano, a youth applied and was accepted. He remained in Yarrow’s employment imfr til his death.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1930, Page 4
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169AN INVENTOR’S BIRTHDAY. Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1930, Page 4
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