I learned about the most delightful little device today at @SFCB.
You know these typical old-school restaurant bills in America?pic.twitter.com/vgrSfcwhvh
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I love the ingenuity and practicality of this little device. It is tangentially related to earliest automatic typing machines, or mail merge, or… We haven’t tried it out today, but if I ever do more letterpress – I would love to use it, just for fun.pic.twitter.com/7Mb8kX8rON
And, if anyone is interested, here’s the patent: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/cd/33/9a/64ad4b15256df6/US1798176.pdf …
/cc @robinsloan + @GlennF + @mkirschenbaum
(It’s funny how one could confuse it for an old, broken counter that’s really, *really* hard to press – but the point is that this is a rare button not meant for human fingers!)
man i always wondered why the last number was sometimes smeared
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