TIME RECORDING CLOCK.

Progress, 1 November 1905, Page 2 (Supplement)

TIME RECORDING CLOCK.

Mr. Herbert H. Thompson, 132 Cambridge-street, Birmingham, England, is the inventor of this clever contrivance. The employee writes either his name, initials, or number on a paper ribbon (A) with a pencil, and then pulls down a lever (B). Th s movement impresses the time on the paper

immediately above the signature. As the lever moves back to its normal position it carries the record inside the box, where it is automatically rewound, and being under lock and key cannot be withdrawn or tampered with. The capacity of the machine is only limited by the length of the paper roll, and about 5000 records can be made before this requires renewal ; the portion containing the records

can, however, be torn off for booking when wanted. If desired the ribbon can be thrown out of gear and the machine used as a time stamp for stamping messages, letters, orders, etc. It can also be employed as a watchman's tell-tale. The lightness and portability of the machine make it \\ ell adapted for checking the time of workmen engaged away from the works.

For the extermination of the rabbit m Australia an ingenious scheme is proposed by Mr. Wm. Rocher, Tambua Station, Cobar, N S.W. Mr. Rodier urges pastoralists and farmers to abandon spring traps and poison carts m favour of devices for catching the pestiferous bunny alive. When caught, the females are to be killed, and the males liberated. The reason for freeing the males is that, when they outnumber the females, they will kill their young. Others, it is said, will be so persecuted that they will not breed, and m time the bucks will worry the remaining does to death. Thus it is proposed to get rid of the breeders, and m time the males will die off by old age and their natural enemies.