Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1928, Page 25

TELE-TYPE SETTER HAILED AS TRIUMPH Garret Inventor Declared Doomed in Face of Co-oper- ation in Industry. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. @pecial Dispateh to The Star. NEW YORK. December 8.—Inventor- manufacturer-technical research expert! That is the trinity of modern invention. This new technique has as its latest triumph the tele-type, demonstrated in the offices of the Rochester Times- Union this week. In the opinion of experts here, its successful demonstration as a device by which a typesetting machine can be op- erated by remote control over a tels- graph wire is proof of the success of the Bew inventive co-operation. “It means the end of the garret in- ventor,” said H. A. Poillon, president of the Research Corporation of New York, a self-sustaining organization which de- \z-lnps patents and devotes its surplus to science and invention. “Invention is now mainly an enterprise of adaptation and, as shown in this instance, a pro- cess is evolved by co-operating interests, rather than springing (ull—fledged from the brain of a single man.” Typewriter By-Produet. In addition to gearing a telegraph wire to a typesetting machine and translating swift electrical impulsions into type, the new machine makes type setting a sort of by-product merely playing & typewriter. One clicks off his copy and sees it before him on the type- writer roll, but on the side lines is a busy little perforating machine, which ives to each word its equivalent of goles in a moving tape, and this tape runs through an attachment to (he typesetting machine, like a musical piano roil, gets the holes back into words again—but metal words on a type slug, ready for the press. One person operating the perforating machine, or one stream of words com- ing in over a telegraph wire, can keep three or four typesetting machines go- 8!( is an invention of tremendous economic importance, as it not only in- creases speed and cuts costs, but it car- ries a step further along the line of complete mechanization, by which the factor of human error is lessened. Publisher’s Idea. Frank E. Gannett, publisher of the Gannett newspapers, pioneered the idea in co-operating with Walter W. Morey, inventor of East Orange, N. J., and Sterling Morton, president; Howard L. Krum and Edward-Kleinschmidt, vice presidents, and Dr. L. M. Potts, re- search engineer, of the Morkrum- Kleinschmidt Corporation of Chicago. Several years ago, Mr. Morey called on Mr. Gannett with regard to another in- vention, and Mr. Gannett discussed with him some ideas which he had held for a long time regarding economies in type setting. The result was the de- velopment of the tele-type setter. ‘The Research Corporation has, in the past, attempted to act as a clemng house between inventors and manu- facturers or industrialists, but has abandoned this as impracticable, and is making commercial use of patents and tendering its surplus to research in- stitutions, among which has been the Smithsonian Institution. In this work it has made a wide and continuous sur- vey of the entire field of invention, and the changing methods by which original creative work is fitted into the mnzm of industry without exploita- Example of Co-operation. “This development of the tele-t; setter is a splendid example of intelli- gent co-operation in the most modern form,” said Mr. Poillon. “Technical processes have been so complex and s0 overlapping that rarely is an idea put forward that does not require develop- ment by other minds, the use of labora~ tories and_work -shops, and sustaining work by the industry or technical es- tablishment to be benefitted. “The field of technical science has been so thoroughly explored that only once in a long time does a grise - which ls not rather a adaptation than a distinctly new inven- tion. The really creative mind has now come to be closely linked with the processes of industry, functionin; and with it, rather than evol €reations on the outside, “This, of course, has made manufac- turers eager to stimulate research, and behind industry there is vast organiza- tion of magnificent’ laboratories. This, inevitably, makes real technical ad- vances a collective enterprise, with a greater stimulus and better facilities for patient experiment than ever before in the history of the world. Such en- lightened co-operation as that between Mr. Gannett and his associates is largely responsible for the mnnng strides which America is making building up its great national wchnlul{ and industrial establishment.” Accuracy in Machine. Among persons informed in problems of mass production, the tele-type setter is regarded as a profoundly significant invention. The printing industry is now one of the leading industries of the country, and the flow of an electric cur- rent from a telegraph wire, through a type-setting machine and into type has far-reaching economic possibilities. It is also noted as an epochal advance in eliminating human intermediaries in one of the most complicated processes of industry, again lessening dependence | on human frailiies and substituting the ! urr:ramng accuracy of the tireless ma- chines (Copyrizht. 1928.) FLETCHER LEFT $45,975. Frank F. Fletcher, rear admiral, U. 8. N, retired, who died Novem- ber 28, 'left an estate valued at $45975, according to the petition of the National Savings and Trust Co., his | executor, for the probate of his will. | He is survived by his widow, Susan 8. Fletcher, and two daughters, Alice S. Fletcher and Sybil F. Hubbell. 1 By the terms of the will all his cash | and securities are to be held in trust by the National Savings and Trust Co. | with directions to pay a life annuity of $3,500 to the widow. On her death the trustee is to pay $5,000 to the daughter, Alice S. Fletcher, and divide the re- | maining trust fund among the two | daughters. URNITURE| FOR XMAS —a stock you will admire Terms Convenient George Plitt Co., Inc.! Painting—Upholstery—Draperies mES TSI S. Mint Vending Machines NEW AND USED For Sale or Lease STANDS, MINTS, REPAIRS Phone Our Washington Salesman, Decatur 5305 LIBERTY VENDING CO. 4801 Eastern Ave. BALTIMORE, MD. THE STUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 9, 1928—PART 1. LANSBURGH & BRO GLORlFYlNG THE CHRISTMAS GIFT ‘# -»- fl k (.u. tht Posts on the Road to Christmas Happiness A Special Selling of ; Whiting and Davis Mesh Bags You'll make no mistake in selecting a Whiting and Davis bag — each one bears a catchet of beauty and perfect workmanship! 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