Office Machinery and Appliances: A Handbook for Progressive Office Managers |
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accordingly Accounting Machine actual addressing machines ADDRESSOGRAPH ADREMA advantage amount arrangement attached automatic BURROUGHS ADDING MACHINE business houses calculations carbon copies carbon paper carbon sheets CARBOTYP cards cent cheque COMPTOMETER connection Control Account convenient course Department depressed desired number desk device Dial Recorder Dictaphone dictator documents effect electric ELLIOTT-FISHER employed enable envelopes figures filing hand handle Hollerith invoicing Key Punch keyboard keys large number Lucigraph matter means mechanical ment models MULTIGRAPH multiplication Name of Operation naturally necessary numerical system obtained office machinery office machines Operation 1474 Space ordinary original output paper particular performed photographs PITNEY-BOWES placed plate position possible practice printed Productograph punched purposes record reproduced result roll saving sealing devices shows side signature sorting Space for Name speed staff stamp stencil subtraction suitable Sundstrand Tabulating Tabulating Machine telephone Teletype totaliser type of machine typewriter typist wages worker
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Page 5 - It was not quite clear whether the new machines were identical with those which had been prohibited in Tudor times ' ; but the attention of the parliamentary Committee on the subject was chiefly directed to the quality of the work done. When the members were once convinced that machine work did not injure the fabric and wrought as well or better than the hand, they were entirely «'»«« they disinclined to support the workmen in their demand for the work well; enforcement of the old prohibition...
Page 5 - Another— and a far more important one — has been self-interest, or what was thought to be self-interest. Thus, in the reign of Edward VI, a statute was passed that prohibited the use of gig-mills in this country. In 1621 a memorial was presented to the Sovereign by the weavers of London, complaining of the competition of foreigners, and especially of the fact that they had "made so bould of late as to devise engines for " working of tape, lace, ribbin, and suchlike, wherein " one man doth more...
Page 10 - ... inside the square, is a pencil mark like this | ^>\. There is no point inside the square where there is an intersection of the lines which can be called a cross. The character seems to have been made by a short stroke of the pencil, followed by another short stroke at right angles with the first. There does not appear to have been any attempt on the part of the voter to make a cross, and this ballot was properly rejected under the authority of Parker v. Orr, 158 111. 609, 41 NE 1002, 30 LRA 227.
Page 158 - ... the 30th of June 1952, the total number involved was 38,048. On the 30th of June 1953, it is expected to be 33,072; on the 30th of June 1954, to be 31,033. We have established in the last couple of years an allowance list for our stations. Naturally, these allowance lists are not static. They must be varied from time to time as the nature of the work of the station varies. But they give us a close control, and this figure of 31,023 on the 30th of June 1954 is the figure carried in our allowance...
Page 162 - I think that there is still a good deal to be said in favour of retaining them, and I will try to explain my reasons for that conclusion.
Page 72 - The working of the machine is very simple, and any person of ordinary intelligence can learn all that has to be learned about its operation in ten days or a fortnight.
Page 12 - Calculations are of course not necessarily limited to mere matters of figuring, and planning means not merely arranging what shall be done, but also how it shall be done, in...