Show RETIRED NAVY MAN INVENTOR OF DEVICE TO HELP READING Machine About Size of Pen Slay May ray Abolish Bulky Books SA SAVES YES EYE STRAIN Fiske Thinks SPrinting Printing Press Ma May Become ct NEW YORK TOnIC March 30 Wy 30 ByTho The Associated A Press Press A read ing log machine that folds told into the size Ize of ot a fountain pen and Is la do- do desIgned de designed signed to do 10 away with bulky books has been been Invented 1 by Rear Admiral Bradley dL A A flake FIske iske retired the Tribune Herald-Tribune says MrS today Admiral Fiske has completed a working model of ot the Invention which he describes as likely to render obsolete printing presses and typesetting m machines and to se the tho publishing busi busi- business bus bus- busness business ness The device lee also 1 Is expected to make eyeglasses unnecessary tor or many readers who ho now wear them The Invention which Admiral Fiske calls the tho Fiske reading Fiske ma- ma machine machine ma machine chine con consists of ot an apparatus us cot unlike a 11 lor lorgnette on which are mounted a Ii magnifying lens for tor one ee eye a II shield tor for the theother theother theother other and a rack to hold reading matter S USED The reading matter for Cor use with the machine 1 Is produced directly from from typewritten manuscripts by photography and Is so micro micro- microscopic microscopic as to be undecipherable with the the naked eye The Tho admiral has had the first volume of ot Mark Twain Twains Twain's Inno info cent Abroad a book of ot words prepared as an nn example and It appears as II a page 13 pam pam- pamphlet phiet three and three quarters b by five and three quarters Inches In Ize The of ot production he says loi ld be bo but a small mall fra frac- frac boo book site e cosho a The advantages advantage of ot reading with one eye el according to Admiral Fiske centers about the absence of any any necessity tor for focusing The Tho ees are protected front all glare and If It the Instrument I Is once properly adjusted It will remain exactly In focus eliminating all strain str The reduced characters are so magnified that they appear larger larler than original I type The Tho first Important field In which Flake Fiske e expects to see the machine used to advantage ad Is la that ot of bulky reference books encyclopedias encyclopedias dIctionaries law book books and records which generally are large and difficult to handle Admiral Fiske Flake who retired from the tho navy y In 1916 has a 0 number ot of successful Inventions to his Is credit among them the torpedo torpedo- torpedo plane plane pl the naval na telescope sight Ight and mount an gun electro-gun range rangefinder tinder a system tor for detecting sub sub- submarines submarines marines and an magnetic electro system tor for exploding torpedoes under ships |