Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-03
WIZARDS OF MECHANICAL ART
Seeing Phones and Bookkeeping Devices
Without Books, Pens or Ink.
SENDING OUT RECEIVING NrrwRrtss
All These Wonders ana More VIII
ne on Exhibition at the
National Business show
at Coliseum.

~ Coliseum
Bookkeeping without books, without pens
ana ink, without even a bookkeeper, yet
with more accurate results and a better
understanding all around, seems a bit Wis
ionary, but this IL exactly what will be
shown at the National Business show to be
held at the Coliseum, Chicago, during the
week Of March 10 to Is Mechanical book
Keeping, long talked OF and seoffed at by
many as impossible, IL at least q reality,
ana Demonstration Of the efficiency of
the idea will be given at the national show,
detailing and explaining how the books
may be kept. records made, balances ar
rived at, and the entire transactions OF a
huge institution or q bank may be kent
accurately ana perfectly, entirely by ma.
ohine and without the stroke Of a pen or
single bit OF manual work being done.
The work Of fifty bookkeepers will be done
by one machine with the supervision Of one
man who will be skilled In mechanics
rather than figures. This is but one Of the
wonders to be shown at the exposition
Another startling thing that will be on
exhibition Is a machine that will work won
oers In correspondence. BY means of this
machine 1t will be possible for every BUSH
ness man to have an automatic stenog-
rapher, office boy and mailing clerk Ali
he will have to DO is to press a button,
take up tube and begin to talk. The ma
chine Will make a record of what he has
SAID typewrite it, and make a press copy,
fold insert, seal and stamp it ready for
the mail man, thus doing away with steno-
raphers, typewriters, office boys, with a
multiplicity Of grandmothers in the base
ball season, and many other details of the
ONCE, NUlig is b,,N
Seeing Telephone.
The seeing telephone" is another TWEEN
tieth century wonder that will be shown.
BY means OF this device Il is possible to
| see the features OF the person you are talk
Ing to. Colors and facial expressions will
be distinguishable at any distance This
| machine Is known as the "Tellvue" and
makes 1t possible to see while talking.
machine that stores telephone CONVEX
sation and reproduces 1t afterward upon
demand In legible characters is still an
| other wonder worker that will be shown.
This device, 1t is claimed, can be at
tached to any telephone so that when one
person calls up another over the phone
poth sides OF the conversation will be
accurately recorded so that it may be
placed in the files or called up later on
to settle disputes or for use in court. The
| inventor of the machine says he will do
| wonderful things with IL and says he will
do great deal for the modern newspapers.
A reporter calling UP his Office will tell his
! story to the telephone, which will make
an accurate record of what he says, repro
duce 1t ready for setting, thus saving great
annoyance and loss of time.
| Still another invention to be seen is the
Justifying typewriter, which will make a
matrix from which printing plates may be
made at once. According to the exhibitor,
any size or style of type can be used in
connection with it and one writing does
the whole thing. Linotype machines and
typesetting machines will become memories
Of the past when this comes into general
use. Newspapers will be produced on type
writer's, he says, for all q man will have
to do then IL to write the story once, send
the matrix down to be stereotyped and
In fraction of time It will be ready for
printing.
A freak typewriter that will draw pic
lures, write In any language under the
sun, make astronomical and geometriC
signs. lines and angles write" ship curves
and do other stunts that are astounding
will be shown to the public here for the
FIRST time. This machine will literally pro.
duce picture in colors and then explain
or describe it in every known language and
shorthand.
Freak Typewriters.
Sending and receiving typewriters are
other things 10 be seen here. A machin,
will be on exhibition that to all appearance!
IL a typewriter, pure and simple wher
an operator sits down to write message
1t not only transcribes that message OF
paper. but telegraphs it letter for lette
as II is written. At the other end is tn,
reverse OF this machine, which receives
the message letter for letter and writes 4
down exactly as the original is being writ
ten. AS many machines can be CONNECTED
on line as are desired, and a man writ
ing telegram in New York may simultan
eously write the same message In ever,
city all the way to San Francisco.
Interest in the show is centering arount
the various speed contests to be held an,
SO far women have outstripped the men Il
, making entries for prizes. Last year Their
, were a number Of men entered, but tba,
, were beaten by the girls. This year few
men are entering and the number of younl
ladies desiring to compete is in excess o
the number last year. Miss Rose L. Fritz
undisputed champion typewriter operate
Of the world, will defend her title an
from present indications all of her com
petitors will be young women. wome
q have also excelled In all other tests, an
2 this year the contests have narrowed dow
\ to the fair sex exclusively.
$ A great many inquiries have been mad
8 by foreign governments regarding the shov
( and as this is the great national event O
the business world 1t is attracting NOR
I than usual amount of attention. Spac
Z has been taken rapidly and when the door
o open they will open on the largest sho'
Q Of its kind ever held in business history