The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-24

phone, the telegraph, the .alautograph.
compressed air tube systems, speaking
tubes messenger boys. But none of
these methods seem to be complete nor
do they answer all the requirements.
With the telephone. no record is
left at either end of the line and ii is
a continual source of annoyance to
the busy man for many other reasons
All other systems have their faults as
well. The Burlingame would facili-
tate corporate business-take a bank
for example. The president Of the
bank could call in the teller or cashier
or any employe of the bank with Il
signal on his Burlingame and trans
nit to that party confidential mes
sage-with the BurIingame Selective
Switch device, no other person could
cut in or receive this message. 1t
would also be possible for the presi-
dent To call everybody in the bank by
the simple pressing IF a button. and
deliver the same message to every en-
ploye in the bank instantly. leaving a
record on his own machine and a car
bon copy" on the machines in all the
departments. This same system would
the bank. one teller could call another
teller. or any other official. or he could
call everybody at once and deliver a
message.
This system could he applied in
banks. In large department stores.
wholesale houses OF every kind. fac
tories. steel and iron plants shipyards,
mines, docks, lumber yards, etc; in
large hotels. office buildings and large
factory offices of all kinds: in fact.
almost every corporation would have
Ire for from two to hundreds OF the
Burlingame machines.
There are 24.ssa banks in the United
States, and 1t is safe to say that not
a single one Of these banks is without
an adding machine today. which shows
how eager the banks are to grasp ev-
erything that win facilitate business. !
Take each one of the corporation
uses OF. the Burlingame invention and
figure the number of machines that
would ultimately he required to cover
this field alone. The result will be as
staggering as the telephone figures.
where one takes the time to figure the
number of telephones in use and the
comparative number five, ten or twenty
years ago.
The Bell Telephone company has
assets of about $500. 900, 900. and has
in use about 100000 telephones. The
total assets of all telephone companies
are something over $4,000 900 900.
Therefore the Bell Telephone company
represents about % per cent of the
tall has IF
would make the estimated number of
telephones in use in the neighborhood
of 10000. 900: but we will, for the bene-
fit of the doubter, cut these figures I'm
two and say there are not more than
100000 telephones in use. Then we
win consider that one-half of these
phones are used for business purposes
and by corporations. We estimate
that for corporation purposes as many
Burlingame instruments would be re-
quired as telephones, But even If only
e-half as many were used. il would
then require 100000 machines for cor
poration purposes. Cut it in two once
more and say that only one-fourth as
many instruments would be used as
telephones. and then divide II by two
once more, to make sure to being down
to rock bottom. and YOU would have
at least 100000 required for corpora
ton uses.