Word: shorthand
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...devices. The $10,000 tabulating machine is considered one of the greatest time-savers ever invented; it is not sold, but rented by the year to various organizations. The newest addition to the laboratory is a "stenotype" machine, which is modelled on the plan of a typewriter and takes shorthand automatically. Five different adding machines have also been installed, and besides all the foregoing, there are a number of automatic mailing machines, addressographs, stenciling machines, addressographs, stenciling machines, cash registers, dictophones, typewriters, duplicators, minute-recording thermometers, "protectographs," automatic bell calls, and letter openers...
These classes include reading, spelling, grammar, composition, arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, business English, business arithmetic, geography, penmanship, book-keeping, mechanical and freehand drawing, physics, electricity, and chemistry; shorthand and civil law and civics; French, German, Latin, and Greek; English literature, debating, public speaking, and argumentation; botany; singing; mandolin, piano and cornet; violin and harmony in connection with the orchestra. There will also be a special department in civil service that will fit students for all grades and classes of public service...