Word: dropper
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Josepho the sum of $1,000,000 for rights to his invention, the "Photomaton." This device is a kind of automatic camera, enclosed in a slot-machine. Drop a quarter in the slot, the camera starts to work, out comes a strip of eight sepia photographs of the quarter-dropper, all in eight minutes. Photomaton, Inc. is backed by a syndicate of such famed figures as onetime (1913-16) Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau, President Harbord of the Radio Corp., John T. Underwood (typewriters) and onetime Vice President Raymond B. Small of the Postum Cereal Co. It has given every...
...pocketing a slip of paper upon which were written the idyllic figures $1,000,000. His invention was a "quarter-in-the-slot" machine. Out of it comes, not gum or hairpins, but a strip of eight sepia photographs, each 2 in. x 1½ in., showing the quarter-dropper in whatever eight poses it has pleased him to strike. The pictures are photographed direct upon sensitized paper. To make a strip of eight pictures requires only eight minutes. A syndicate of men successful enough to know a real gold brick when they see one-including onetime Ambassador to Turkey...