Here's the latest invention to lessen crime -- It's a "remembering machine" patented by Harold Highstone (left), of San Francisco, and this is how it is supposed to work: The license of cars wanted by authorities are punched out on a mechanical pattern. Then, an officer stationed at an advantageous place merely punches on a six-rowed keyboard the licenses of all cars that pass. When a sought car is tabulated, a light flashes. Police Chief William Quinn of San Francisco is shown inspecting the machine.

Associated Press · [ca. March 1935]

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