Automatic time-teller, Washington, D.C., Oct. 3. Tired of searching thru maps and schedules whenever some one in the State Department wanted to know what time it was in Rio of Timbuktu, Samuel Boggs, the department's geographer, has devised his own automatic time-teller. It is rotating disk-like cha

New process expected to revolutionize map making. Washington, D.C., March 21. A new machine just designed and perfected by John Braund, Cartographer for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, by which relief maps can be made showing all the details of topography in a form true to nature, is expected to

G.M. Clemence Ast. Astronomer file records from the reorder. On the right is the time signal transmitting clock connected by direct wire to Arlington and Annapolis. All signals are broadcast from there and also from San Francisco to Honolulu and Balboa

Decoding Chief at the State Dept. Washington, D.C., July 31. David Salmon, Chief of the Division of Communications and Records at the State Department is kept very busy decoding all the messages for the president that are coming thru the State Dept. from the China Japan hostilities. The messages are

Device takes time signal from pendulum of clock. ingenius apparatus takes a time signal from the pendulum. A clock without mechanical contact and the time thus. accurate to a small fraction of a second variation. day. This device was invented by R.E. Gould, Chief of Time Section of the

Youthful dynamo, Washington, D.C. August 1. One of the most exacting jobs of the century has been placed in the hands of this Wisconsin legal genius, Samuel Becker, 33, who is now conducting the Federal investigation of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., for the Federal Communications Commiss

Taxes, Washington, D.C. Oct. 5. Lovell H. Parker, Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, heads the corps of experts now going over the entire tax structure so that a comprehensive picture may be ready for the next Congress when it meets this coming January

New time saving voting machine designed to U.S. Capitol employee. Washington, D.C., May 10. Until Jurgensen, Jr., a tally clerk in the House of Representatives designed this electric voting machine it took at least three months, using the old rubber stamp system, to compile the voting records of the

Adding prize winner. Washington D.C. In a speed and accuracy contest for adding machine operators last night, William A. Offutt of the Washington Loan and Trust Company, was declared winner over a field of 30 contestants. The contest was sponsored by the Washington Chapter, American Institute of Ban