Word: matterâ
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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This astounding mechanism?the Fiske Reading Machine?consists of a small spring-tongs on which are mounted a lens for one eye, a shield for the other and a rack to hold reading matter???really a very simple contrivance, something like a, stereoscope, except that you use one eye instead of two, and the lens is a more powerful magnifier. But the important part of this invention is not the mechanism but the use. For it will, asserted the Admiral, "render printing presses and typesetting machinery obsolete," "revolutionize the publishing industry," "make glasses unnecessary." By its help books will...