“TICK OR NO TICK”
INGENIOUS DEVICE FOR SHOPS. EXPERIMENTS IN LONDON. London, November 20. The Daily Mail states: “Tick or no tick” will literally be the answer of a machine with which a leading London department store is experimenting. It will decide automatically whether a customer is entitled to credit. The assistant operates a key invisible and inaudible to the customer, spelling out the customer’s name, and the cost of the intended purchase. If she hears an immediate mechanical tick transmitted from the apparatus nerve centre in the office she is aware tick in the monetary sense can be extended. If no tick comes from the office there is no tick to the customer.—United Service.
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Southland Times, Issue 20648, 21 November 1928, Page 5
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