A WONDERFUL INVENTION

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4003, 9 August 1915, Page 3

A WONDERFUL INVENTION

THE TYPE-SETTING MACHINE. The news of the groat war is beingset by machine :in the language *',l every nation that is taking part in it or is interested (states an American paper). The type-setting machine oi American invention and American doveiopment to-day is composing tJic newspapers in English, French, German, Jtussian, Arabic, Hungarian, Bohemian, Slavic, Slovak, Buthcmaii, Litliuanian and Polish'. It is tolling the neutral nations the nows in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Nonveigian, Danish, l*inrush, Dutch, Greek and Bulgarian. It is eomposing newspapers . to-day in Welsh, Hebrew and* Yiddish. There is no continent in which it is not working. Its product greets the traveller is every city of the United States, in Africa, at the headquarters of the Amazon, in'Singapore, m New Zealand and in the'West and East Indies. They clack at the limit of i*an s habitations under the-polar circle and they band the earth along the equator. . The type-setting machine, wlucb Edison lias called one of tho 10 wonders of the world, lias done a great deal more than to set two lines ot type whoro only,one grew before. It has so increased the feasibility of printing and publishing that to-day there are scores (more probably hundreds) of newspaper’s that owing ' to local conditions could not possibly have boon started without it and could not exist without it. It has made possible the erection of hundreds of job offices and independent printing plants in places that before its advent would never liavd learned to use print. Thus it has proved itself to be that ideal form of labor saving machinery whose advent has saved men from drudgery and has increased the demand for their product and by making tho manufacture of that product possible anywhere—in the middle of the jungle, if desired. It contains the whole composing room within itselt.