Baranowsky'a ticket printing, numbering, and registering machine ; Lewthwaitc's machine for numbering railway or pawnbrokers' tickets, or paging books, or 'Tinting any consecutive series of numbers; the machines invented by Church and Goddard, and by Messrs. Harrild, for printing and numbering railway tickets; and those invented by Mr. Shaw and Mr. Schlosinger, for paging ledgers and cheque-books are all examples bearing a similarity to Edmondson's sufficiently close to render separate description unnecessary.
A remarkable process of printing a series of consecutive numbers is described under BANK-NOTE MANUFACTURE.
There is a great variety of instruments in which number or quantity is indicated by a dial, instead of by printing. Mr. Whiffen's apparatus records the number of times that a certain operation is performed ; it was Intended primarily to be applied to the trap-door of a ship's coal weighing machine, to register the number of times that the door of the shoot has been opened for the discharge of coals ; but a slight modifi cation will enable it to register the filling of measures of grain, or the number of times that a porter or carrier has crossed a platform with goods ; it comprises toothed-wheels, ratchets, and ratchet-wheels, a dial plate, and index hands. Walker'a opera meter registers the amount of work done by certain machines. There is a shaft which may be connected with any one of such machines; the abaft rotates as fast as the machine, and givea motion to a train of wheelwork, with a dial face and index hands ; the hands thus become a measure and register of the amount of work done by the machine, so far as that work is denoted by revolutions of machinery. Something similar to this is the apparatus called a counter, often used in cotton factories to count, or record the revolutions of particular parts of a machine. Scientifio men now make large use of contrivances which measure and register certain phenomena with which they are concerned, such as heat, moisture, barometrical pressure, rain, wind, and tides—either by an Index-hand moving round a dial, or by a pencil marling on a revolving cylinder of paper. Registers of time, space, and speed, are numerous and varied. All kinds of horological instruments belong, of course, to the first of these three groups. The odometer measures the length of roads and atreets, and records the results on a dial suitably graduated. The pedometer counts and registers the number of steps taken by a person in walking, thereby measuring the distance walked if the steps are equal in length. Whishaw's relocentinter is intended to measure
the velocity of a railway train, by showing how far an index.hand has moved during the passage of the train from one mile-post to another. Itedier'n horographe Is intended to register the rate of speed between two stations, and the exact time at which the train arrives at each. Carey's measuring machine is a contrivance for recording the number of revolutions made by the wheel of a carriage, as denoted by the slow movement of an index-hand. The turnstiles at the pay places of bridges and exhibitions show, by an index-hand, the number of times that the stile has been turned to permit a passenger to pass through. Arra's pendide indicateur, and many forms of tell-tale, are contrivances which test and register the vigilance of watchmen, gnards, police, night porters, die.: in most ouch machines, the man is expected to touch a particular part of the apparatus at certain intervals during the night ; and if he fail to do this, a dial-face or other register tells a tale of his negligence, and of the period of the night when the negligence occurred. Numerous indicators, monitors, and detectors, have been proposed for use io omnibuses and cabs, either to measure the distance run, or to register the number of persona who have entered; in some of these, the passenger, when lie enters or leaves the vehicle, steps on one cud of a lever or spring, which works an index-hand; in others, the seat on which he sits has some such lever or spring beneath it ; none of these machines, however, has come regularly into use.
A machine called the timbre additioneur combines the principles of both groups just described : namely, those which print consecutive numbers on tickets and pages, and those which register quantities bn dial-faces. There are stamping dies, levers, inking-tables, wheel-work, and index-hands. With the full apparatus, the machine can number and stamp such documeuts as bills, letters, and share-certificates, and can record on the dial the number of stampings thus effected ; with the stamping and inking apparatus removed, it may be made to count the passengers through a turnstile, or the revolutions of a coach wheel, or the length of yarn spun by a machine, or that of cloth woven, or the revolutions of a fly-wheel or water-wheel.