Show 94 HAVE YOUR PICTURE TAKEN drop a quarter in the slot and have your picture taken A chicago photographer was standing by a handsome cabinet similar in appearance to the automatic weighing machines which confront one everywhere A quarter wh Vs the matter with a nickle A nickle will do in three or four months when the novelty wears off but until the automatic grap hist is succeeded by a machine which will turn you out a house and lot a quarter only will work it it is the latest thing out the reporter squared himself before a small closed opening in the cabi cabinet net opposite his face he dropped a quarter into the slot lower down I 1 instantly estan aly a I 1 metal d door u unclosed the opening abere exposing the eye of a camera there was a flash of light the opening closed and in a couple of minutes a finished phot photograph ogra h ot ol himself fell on a slaver before t ite the reporter how did you strike the idea of such an invention aboard A board of trade man suggested it said he he said raid there was big money in it eleven weeks ago I 1 started it and here it is patented with a corporation behind it til a ready to take in the quarters andl will take them in for it is the invention of the sort thatah thata 1 directly to the universal van the public while apparently com complicate j the mechanism of the machine 0 turned out to be sim simple le it is rett mm by an ordinary ce cell I 1 battery I 1 quarter completing the curren current LL AM instantaneous camera is sulp sup 11 nei with the necessary light by a naefel of magnesium and chlorate of potash 7 dropped for each photograph on 6 v pan above the opening and igni igniter by the heat ofa of a platinum wire the photograph is taken on a cellum celluloid sheet about the size of a 9 tint tintype 1 y A set of rollers and a preparation m of at in emulsion breya develop and dry the impression the like lakenen issues much better finished than tow the ordinary tintype the machine cost about att 50 0 said the photographer the expense of operating them is next to ito nothing we will won soon have them in every hotel drug store and saloon in the country are you going to utilize the invention for any other purposes eee than amusement I 1 I 1 yes for two serious purposes eeB I 1 have a machine under construct loik which is to have the appearance appear anoe of a clock and be placed on the railing of cashiers and tellers in banks what fora for 1 to enable them to take a photograph of anyone who cashes a clma in case they should want to iden identify him afterward while the man U in before the railing the cashier or teller will press an electric button and photograph will be taken in the tenth of a secord he will see nothing but a slight flash in the clock and get awa away y if he tried to before the instrument has indelibly recorded his tu tures chicago tribune |