[GreenKeys] what kind of crazy perforator is this?

Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:48:06 -0700

AND now (drum roll please) you know why Jim Haynes is our Historian!

Don

At 3:41 PM -0500 7/23/02, [email protected] wrote:
>I haven't a clue.  Unfortunately the catalog of patents in the local
>library doesn't go back that far, and you can't search online back that
>far.  And without a patent number it is even harder.
>
>I'm guessing that the two spindles are for holding some kind of inked
>ribbon. 
>
>Gil, if you have time to do some work, the library at ASU does have patent
>indexes going back that far; and back that far the number of inventions
>might be few enough that you could make a few guesses and find out what it
>is.
>
>However, a quick Google search may have turned up the answer...
>
>"In 1879 Miles Bartholomew, an official court reporter, received a patent
>on the first American shorthand machine. Four years later he further
>refined his "Type-Writing Machine," which applied the principle of "alteration
>of hands," but still wrote only a letter at a stroke.
>
>"Ward Stone Ireland's efforts made a greater contribution to the
>advancement of machine shorthand than that of any otherinventor. His
>high-speed keyboard, still in use today, had a minimum number of keys, thus
>reducing or eliminating the awkward reaching for keys not directly under
>  the fingers. In fact, Ireland's first production model Stenotype machine
>enabled inexperienced operators to attain and often break speed
>championship records."
>
>(from http://www.ncraonline.org/about/history/CourtReport.shtml)
>
>"In 1876, the stenotype was patented by John C. Zachos of New York City
>(No. 175,892).  This was the first U.S. patent for a device for
>printing legible text in the English alphabet at a high reporting speed,
>which he called a "typewriter and phonotypic notation." The type was fixed
>on eighteen shuttle bars, two or more of which may be simultaneously
>placed in position. The impression was given by a plunger common to all bars.
>He called his new system of shorthand "stenophonotypy.""
>
>(from http://www.todayinsci.com/cgi-bin/indexpage.pl?hhtp:.... etc etc)
>
>There is a piece at www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/volume8.html that gives
>a later date to it all, but shows a Stenotype keyboard - has a lot more
>keys than the machine in the eBay illustration.
>
>There is http://www.machineshorthand.com/   which says that there is a
>history center with photos of various steno machines used through the
>years of the court reporting industry - but I haven't been able to find it
>on the web page.
>
>Well that's enuf for now...
>
>
>
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