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Show UNCLE SAM'S PROGRESSIVE MACHINERY. NEW POWER PRESS AT BOTTOM. GEOMETRICAL LATHE AT TOP. J FS'-Sii - '?lTOf llr: Washington, D 26. During tho past week the United States bureau of j engraving and printing has been Installing In-stalling two marvelous machinery Inventions In-ventions which will do away with the work of many employes. The goo-metrical goo-metrical lathe Is one of the crowning features of American Imention. This wonderful apparatus produces automatically automat-ically the intricate designs on tht; reverse re-verse of our greenbacks It not onlv does this automatically, but does it In about one-tenth the time. This is the first photograph ever permitted to be made of the lathe. The power press, operated by electricity, elec-tricity, will do the plate printing of our postage stamps, etc., many times as rapidly as It has been possible to do it on the old-fashioned hand presses In exclusive use at the government print-cry. print-cry. Necessity is the mother of Invention the same today as It has always been. When Uncle Sam found he was in need of immediate currency and unable to supplv this, something had to be done, and the geometrical lathe Is the result. With this machine It will be able far more efficiently to supply the 'nurry-up demands for greenbacks in case of a currency famine which sometimes occurs. oc-curs. The director of the bureau of printing print-ing and engraving, under whose progressive pro-gressive policy these machines have been adopted, deserves the greatest credit in keeping the United States far ahead of the other countries In the matter of a thoroughly equipped printing print-ing and engraving plant. |