AN AUCKLAND INVENTION.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17917, 13 January 1930, Page 7

AN AUCKLAND INVENTION.

PROTECTION FOR JEWELLERS.

LETTERS BY TELEGRAPH. ASSURANCE OF SECRECY. unl.oo Pr. SS Within five years the bulk of business correspondence to New Zealand will be telegraphed in facsimile, in the opinion of Mr Morgan Cyprian O’Brien, of Auckland, who came to London in 1925 with his inventions, including a safety window for jewellers and a safety door. Both these are now on the market. A Bond Street Arm has installed his window device, which consists of a heavy steel blind which falls the instant a window is 'broken, precluding “ smash and grab ” raids. The manager stated that thieves who raided the shop next door to the Arm recently were baulked by this guillotine, a notice of which is prominently disp lay e d. “ it is unreasonable nowadays that letters should take six weeks to go to the Dominion,” said Mr O'Brien. “ The solution, which must be quicker than the air mail, is telegraphic facsimile transmission. The British Post Office photographs letters and transmits photographic matter in six minutes, not six weeks.

' “ I am securing secrecy by the device I am working on, which consists of a cipher typewriter, which makes a simultaneous cipher of English copies, although -the message is in ordinary type, nobody but the proper recipient can decode the cipher." Mr O’Brien has many other inventions in prospect, including an antiaircraft gunnery device. He has encountered many difficulties in London, which he says is no place for inventors, but he has now Aoated -a company.