tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655653784122131754.post7165663285344997978..comments2024-03-26T16:00:23.608-04:00Comments on The Typewriter Revolution blog: L.C. Smith typewriter for cutting address stencilsRichard Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232053429935587826noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655653784122131754.post-89398051114566573282014-09-20T08:44:43.454-04:002014-09-20T08:44:43.454-04:00Excellent! Thanks to you and Phil for identifying ...Excellent! Thanks to you and Phil for identifying this machine. I'm going to add that fascinating video to this page.Richard Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16232053429935587826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655653784122131754.post-90870561646459292772014-09-20T04:31:48.279-04:002014-09-20T04:31:48.279-04:00The roll actually looks a lot like adding machine ...The roll actually looks a lot like adding machine paper roll mechanisms. Could be the little roll is a brake? With the paper feed, such a roll unrolls and gets loose paper. Two tabstops, are those fixed or settable?<br /><br />Maybe it can take an extra roll of paper for keeping a archiving or checking copy of the cards on a roll? (scroll?)<br />Or allowing for making either Elliot cards as well as addressing on a type of roll?<br /><br />But either way - it indeed is an Elliot Stencil Machine. You can see one in operation and the Elliot machine itself also on the 5 minute 36 mark of the 1947 movie on Modern Business Machines on my June 3rd post :-)RobertGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01841652527282627317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655653784122131754.post-33298690373395078152014-09-20T00:20:54.772-04:002014-09-20T00:20:54.772-04:00Wow, what an unusual machine indeed. I think I wil...Wow, what an unusual machine indeed. I think I will second Miguel's opinion, I can imagine it as a library machine meant for the card catalog.Ton S. https://www.blogger.com/profile/10691201724230891974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655653784122131754.post-66180001922677156672014-09-19T22:19:58.573-04:002014-09-19T22:19:58.573-04:00Very interesting! Perhaps it could have been used ...Very interesting! Perhaps it could have been used in libraries to make the reference cards? But then it would have to be able to use the ribbon in all the lines. Miguel Chávezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09411154570699775904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655653784122131754.post-21283840716607799032014-09-19T21:17:56.826-04:002014-09-19T21:17:56.826-04:00Quite an interesting machine. I'm thinking it...Quite an interesting machine. I'm thinking it may have been used as the original junk mail creator. Ads were spooled from the roll and the machine was used to address the cards as they came off the roll to be sent to unsuspecting recipients so they would buy something. <br /><br />Just teasing really. I've never seen one of these before. It is quite interesting though. If only machines could talk.Bill Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14649212489891769390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655653784122131754.post-71414152240074792042014-09-19T20:40:04.176-04:002014-09-19T20:40:04.176-04:00Back then, there were two methods for addressing e...Back then, there were two methods for addressing envelopes. The Addresograph used embossed metal plates. The other, I think it was called Elliott, used small stencils in a cardboard frame. I think this was used to create the address on the stencil. I suspect there was a way of making a copy as each stencil was created, using a roll of 4" paper. The stencil itself might have created the image on the paper. <br /><br />See http://www.cambridgehistory.org/discover/innovation/Elliot%20Addressing%20Machine.htmlPhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00159288023048032948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655653784122131754.post-4015708354602000462014-09-19T19:59:31.439-04:002014-09-19T19:59:31.439-04:001937 hey?
This machine seems to be too specific a...1937 hey? <br />This machine seems to be too specific and elaborate to be only produced a few times. So I'm going to speculate that there's potentially a few thousand of these out there. That said, these machines would have been produced on contract for a particular deparment or project. Being pre-war, this machine wouldn't have been used for specific military objectives - large scale so I'm willing to guess that this was done for a major government research project. <br /><br />Making an assumption that this machine was used to produce labels for samples - and a lot of them - I decided to google 'Major Geological Survey 1937'. As it turns out, the US government did conduct a major survey during 1936 - 1937 of groundwater across the country. It also seems that there was some major flooding in Texas at the time the led to to further research in the feild. <br /><br />So.... I'm going to give a very specific speculation: This machine was produce to label groundwater, soil and core samples of which multiple samples were taken and sent to a variety of departments for assessement. <br /><br />That's all based on assumption mind you, and no real direct evidence. Scott Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13243020164163596709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655653784122131754.post-33519605665559128162014-09-19T19:34:31.273-04:002014-09-19T19:34:31.273-04:00I saw one of these last summer in a Niles, Michiga...I saw one of these last summer in a Niles, Michigan antique store. Same color and double-shift numbers, too!x over ithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15734152691021327395noreply@blogger.com