READING BY MICROSCOPE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19803, 31 May 1926, Page 9

READING BY MICROSCOPE.

AMERICAN ADMIRAL’S INTENTION. An invention expected to render printing presses and type-setting machines obsolete and revolutionise the entire publishing business has been produced by Admiral Bradley Fiake, U.H.N., writes the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Incidentally Admiral Fiske believes his device will make spectacles unnecessary for the majority of readers who now use them. “The Fiske reading machine,” as the Admiral calls hi* invention, resembles a small lorgnette and a rack for reading matter, which is photographed directly from type-written manuscript and reduced to microscopic proportions. Mark Twain’s “Innocents Abroad," a book of 93,000 words, has been reduced by the Fiske process to a 13-page pamphlet 4 inches by 6 indue, with ample margins. The cost of the pieces? is only a fraction of that of publishing a book. The lorgnette, about the size of an ordinary fountain pen, requires the use of only one eye, and automatically focuses the reading matter ,nd protects the sight froiq all glare and extraneous light. Admiral Fiske declares his invention is invaluable for reference books and in reducing the space iow required for the filing of essential records, and ho believes in time books and newspapers will be published in the new form.