All About Inventions and Discoveries
The Romance of modern scientific and mechanical Achievements
Forfatter: Frederick A. Talbot
År: 1916
Forlag: Cassell and Company, LTD
Sted: London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
Sider: 376
UDK: 6(09)
With a Colour Plate and numerous Black-and-White Illustrations.
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176 All About Inventions
to write in printed letters at a higher speed than one
could write by hand with the pen. It was not merely
an inventor’s boast, because the circumstance had
been proved by actual demonstration. In addition
to publishing the article in a complete form, the
American paper published an editorial comment,
pointing out the great advantages of writing letters
by mechanical agency, the benefits it would bestow
upon mankind, and the huge fortune that would
certainly accrue to the first man who successfully
solved the problem.
Glidden handed the paper on to Sholes, who was
a keen thinker and possessed of a vivid imagination.
The more he thought about the editorial suggestion,
and the more he studied the description of Pratt’s
invention, the more strongly he felt convinced of the
accuracy of the editor’s opinion that wealth could
be won in this direction. Sholes himself was not a
mechanical man, but he decided to attack the issue.
As Glidden had first suggested a machine for writing
letters he was requested to enter the task, while
Soule was also invited to participate.
The three men discussed the project enthusiastic-
ally, and suggestion after suggestion was advanced,
to be threshed out by mutual criticism. Glidden,
who was a man of fertile ideas, thought out a number
of devices whereby the desired end might be achieved,
as also did Soule. But it was found that the sug-
gestions of the last-named were more practical and
were preferred. By the time the idea had been
reduced to the sketch stage it was found that the
projected machine comprised the general suggestions
of Glidden, the details of the mechanism as outlined