[GreenKeys] 1940 Britih Teleprinter film

[Jim Haynes]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2026, Harold Hallikainen via GreenKeys wrote:

> a cannister to go upstairs where the sale would be recorded and sales sent
> back downstairs.

I recall a system like that being used in J. C. Penny stores, back
when that company was made up of smaller stores in smaller towns.
The carrier was hand-powered.  The sales clerk had to pull hard
enough on a handle to propel the carrier to the cashiers located
above the show windows in front.  I guess that put the cash handling
into a place where robbers would have a hard time getting in and out.

> long distance call). I recall also the Western Union DeskFax to handle the
> last mile. On originating a telegram, someone had to transcribe the

W.U. must have spent a lot of money developing fax machinery of various
kinds.  Desk-fax, automobile fax, fax vending machines, all swept away
by the more recent generation of customer-owned fax machines operating
over the public telephone network.

See Western Union Technical Review and Western Union History of
Technical Progress (to be found online).

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> I can imagine what it costs to have all those messengers sitting there
> waiting to go out and deliver a telegram.
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