typometer

In spite of an enormous and long-outstanding bill for office stationery, insistently clamorous for payment -- one of those bills looked upon as trifles until they suddenly become staggering -- there was, after the mail, a general feeling of wielding the destiny of a large part of the world, where the typometer was a power.

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

The mail brought him the usual miscellaneous assortment of orders and bills, and letters on minor points, and questions as to the typometer.

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

He might do other things; he might do worse things: this thing he could not do -- not though the refusal worked his own ruin, not though Cater's ruin with Hardanger was insured anyway, but too late for the typometer to profit by it.

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

We didn't put you into the typometer business on any kindergarten principles -- it isn't to form your character.

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

Hardly had he gone, however, when the door-bell rang, and word was brought to Lois, who with Dosia had gone up-stairs, that it was Mr. Harker from the typometer office.

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

Even if the typometer could by some means keep afloat until that day arrived, it would take a couple of years for such a timing-machine to regain its prestige in a foreign country.

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

I shouldn't wonder if they'd take over the typometer as it stands, and work Alexander in with it.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Various

Nominally the same thing, the typometer was now but one factor of trade among a dozen other patented inventions under the control of Rondell Brothers.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Various