The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-02-07
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Ssonse ,pisat setn 10 i'd rett Near
sT,hfnly ing tsse. ~ 4
stii the corn min et bell that sets
40 "a tin ling the moment the
[3hoppet runs enin IN to the tilcnlats
Ing mach that are no To- NJ, found 4
Fin banks and SSinsura nec tiiccs clearing
houses and o6seryat tories, there are So
many NEE hanical ssubstlt ntes for brain;
workers that sit Is difficult Mt times
To- realize that 1t Is, after al, only
mechanism and not Intelligence thatEis
being evolved, rEsaid an employee at the!
patent office to d Star reporter,
a"soue OF the touches Of whit, for
convenience, we may call mechanical
Intelligence TO DO met with In various
odd corners 81, the Industrial and com.
] mercial world are really quite amusing,
and they have their prototype In that
little bell OF the. old windmill! Nj Y
.There rs, for instance, to be seen In
any screw factory a different Enpg'lcaS
ton OF that device. The machinery
takes hold of rod OF me.1l pulls5i It
rapidly along, gives the end OF It the
general shape Of a screw. cuts tho
thread round It and the slot In the head
and then ships OF a perfect screw.
"If you watch the thing actually
making the screws tho idea strikes
you that 1t Is really piece Of mechan.
Ism, but when the machine comes to
the end of Its material and gives 1
sharp, impatient ring OF the bell fos
I the attendant to bring more you can
. not help laughing and would scarcely
be surprised Il, when the man came
Y with another rod, tho busy screw
maker gave linn a sharp reprimand, 70,
inattentlon and sdilatoriness. In. these
days OF Photographs, OF course. Il
would be quite practical to make It d.
70. p &. a s. 3,:. u q
) "The machine by which railway tlcl,
cts are printed gives another amusln,
little show of intelligence or what look
to be very like 1t. Railway tickets ar
{ not, us might be supposed, printed Il
4 large sheets and nfterward cut up. TIL
!. cardboard Is cut into tickets first, an,
they are printed one by one aftcrward
b 1.-THE little blank cards arc put in /
y pile in a8kind OF perpendicular spo,ll
and the machine slips a bit Of meta
underneath the bottom Of tho spou
and pushes out tho lowest ticket i
i the pile, to be printed and consecutivel
Z numbered. i:i
!. ut is OF no use trying 10 print a ba'
! ticket. The machine finds out an In
perfect blank In an instant, and fail
!. refuses to- have anything TO do wit
Il 1t. II s IA 7; =. 4. 4, 4. "a.
H "These are simple instances Of
!. good initiation OF watchfulness and dil
q criminal on7-indced, the hitter looks n
most like conscientious care. They a
Z. ford a ,droll suggestion Of the tralnc
y Intelligence Of the learned pig or ii
Il performing dog, and we may find var
q. GUS degrees OF the same: at the Unite
~ States mint they have weighing N,
d.; chimes for coins, TO which 1t Is ditllcn
# to deny a very acute Intelligence. II
~ mint apparatus is more remarkable 4
the two. Z b. 4.
III "Thc9new5 coins ut the }nhnts. hoy
ever. are sometimes a tri1c ov,
=" weight. while, sometimes. Of cours
Al they are under. 50 1t is necessary L
as sort them ontin three catcgorles- llgl
heavy and good. This delicate bus
ig ness Is lono with unerring precise
i by Il long row OF wonderfully clcv
n little machines. 4 AZ, y.
a "Into these machines single piles
shining new coins are put. and &qui
=, automatically the mechanism tai
8 each coin, puts 1t into the scale and
IT. fraction over two seconds at the ra
$ OF twenty-five a minute--welghs 1T
!. the coin Is light, the machine shoe
It into its proper receptacle: II heay
It: into another, and II 1t lis of CORE
m weight or with margin, as they G
~ II, It is pushed into a third receptacle
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