United States or Martinique ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Nasby and I saw the machine through a window, and went in to look at it. The salesman explained it to us, showed us samples of its work, and said it could do fifty-seven words a minute a statement which we frankly confessed that we did not believe. So he put his type-girl to work, and we timed her by the watch. She actually did the fifty-seven in sixty seconds.
However, we argued safely enough that the FIRST type-girl must naturally take rank with the first billiard-player: neither of them could be expected to get out of the game any more than a third or a half of what was in it. If the machine survived IF it survived experts would come to the front, by and by, who would double the girl's output without a doubt.
Word Of The Day