Evening star., 1928-12-09
1ELE-TYPE SETTER
HA|LEDAS TRIUMPH
Garret Inventor Declared
Doomed in Face of Cooper
alton in Industry.
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON.

BpeCl1l DlaphtCn TO Inc otdfs
NEW YORK. December 8.-Inventor-
manufacturer-technic research expert!
Tia. 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 device by
which typesetting machine can be OPP
Grated by remote control over tele-
graph wire is proof of the success OF the
new inventive cooperation.
1T means the end of the garret In
ventor." said H. A. Poillon, president OF
the Research Corporation of New York,
o self-sustaining organization which de-
velops patents and devotes its surplus to
science and invention. Invention is
now mainly an enterprise of adaptation
and, as shown in this instance, pro-
cess is evolved by cooperating interests,
rather than springing full-fiedged from
the brain of single man."
Typewriter By-PrOduct.
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 a typewriter. One clicks Oh his
COPY and sees it before him on the type
writer roll, but on the side lines is a
busy little perforating machine, which
gives to each word its equivalent OF
holes in moving tape, and this tape
runs through an attachment to the
typesetting machine, like a musical
piano roll, gets the holes back into
a;y1 kN1ff ofo oil nY a
slug, ready for the press.
One person operating the perforating
machine, or one stream of words COM
ing in over telegraph wire, can keep
three or four typesetting machines go
ing.
It is an invention of tremendous
economic Importance. as it not only in
creaSes speed and cuts costs, but 1t car
ries a step further along the line OF
complete mechanization, by which the
factor of human error is leSsened.
Publishers Idea.
Frank E. Gannett, publisher Of the
Gannett newspapers, pioneered the idea
In cooperating 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.
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 clearing
house between inventors and manu-
facturers or industrialists, but has
abandoned this as impracticable, and is
making commercial use of patents and
rendering its surplus to research in
stitutions among which has been the
Smithsonian Institution. In this work
it has made wide and continuous sur
vey of the entire field of invention,
and the changing methods by which
original creative work is fitted into the
pattern of industry without exploita-
ton.
Example of Cooperation.
This development of the tele-type
setter is a splendid example OF intelli-
gent cooperation in the most modern
form," said Mr. Poillon. Technical
processes have been so complex and so
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 benefited.
1.-THE field of technical science has
been so thoroughly explored that only
once in a long time does a suggestion
arise which is not rather a proposed
adaptation than distinctly new tnven-
ton. The really creative mind has now
come to be closely linked with the
nf fTU fllnRfinnin0
and with 1t, rather than evolving its
creations on the outside,
This, of course, has made manufac-
turers eager to stimulate research, and
behind industry there is vast organiza-
ton 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 cooperation as that between
Mr.. Gannett and his associates is
largely responsible for the amazing
strides which America is making in
building up its great national technical
and industrial establishment"
Accuracy in Machine.
Among persons informed in problems
of mass production, the tele-type setter
40 AC6oA OCu DO piOiouAuly SASAidSoht
invention. The printing industry is now
one of the leading industries of the
country, and the flow of an electric cur
rent from telegraph wire, through
type-setting machine and into type has
far-reaching economic possibilities It is
also noted as an epochal advance in
eliminating human Intermediates in
one of the most complicated processes
of industry. again lessening dependence
on human frailties and substituting the
unfailing accuracy of the tireless ma
chimes.
tCOnyright. 1921