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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Looks a similar typeface to 1950s Gibson serial numbers. I wonder if they used something similar.pic.twitter.com/zXU6A7r70z
Interesting!!!
I used to use those on a Heidelberg windmill to number cheques etc.
That’s a good life!
There are quite a few Heidelberg windmills around modern print shops that do nothing but number things with these. It is a very cheap way to sequentially number things.
These date way way back. I haven't done my research, but I recall references from the 1800s. Also @chrishiggins’ great-grandfather invented a bunch of hand counters and meter counters!https://newdisrupt.org/blog/2018/12/10/grand-inventions-counting-gears-with-chris-higgins …
Here we go: this 1842 sources cites 1819 as the origin of a numbering machine:https://books.google.com/books?id=y1rGAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA167&dq=press+numbering+machine&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-wseC8f_hAhUhPn0KHSpJDfc4FBC7BTAGegQIARAF#v=onepage&q=press%20numbering%20machine&f=false …
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