SCIENCE SITTINGS.
A WRITER AT WORK.
A rapid writer can write thirty words in one minute. To do this he must draw his pen through the space of a rod sixteen and a -half feet. In forty minutes his pen 'travels a furlong, and in five-and-a-half hours a full mile. He makes on an average sixteen curves, or turns, of the pen for each word written. Writing at the rate of thirty words per minute, he must make eight curves io each second; in an hour,l 28,800; in five hours, 144,000; and in 300 days, working only five hours eaoh day, he makes not less than 43,200,000 curves and turns of the pen.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7383, 8 February 1902, Page 4 (Supplement)
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113SCIENCE SITTINGS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7383, 8 February 1902, Page 4 (Supplement)
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