The last item is a paper check punch or embosser. You mark the amount on the paper check with tiny punched holes in the shapes of the numbers to prevent check washing.
As a kid growing up in the country with an outhouse, rather than a bathroom inside, we had chamber pots that were dubbed 'thunder mugs' as the only time we would want to use them was when there was a storm and we did not want to go outside to use the outhouse. So calling the signal cannons 'thunder mugs', brought back the original meaning for me, and made me wonder why they would call the signal cannons 'thunder mugs? As for the use of signaling cannons, the ships of today still give salutes to the harbors they are entering for the honor of the presiding dignitaries of the countries they are visiting.
The last item is a rare, 1930's Mayan Calendar Translator. Mayan's did not have a zero in their number system so it was difficult for the so called "educated men" of early 1900's to calculate the end of the world. The best they could figure, was Dec. 12th or 21st of the year 2012, but of course now we know it's next Wednesday.
My boss at Arthur Murray Dance Studio "wrote" out our paychecks with the last device shown. Apparently zeros are left when no other key is pushed in a specific number column. The check is embossed with a series of pin holes in the shape of each digit. It makes the check inalterable.
before you said what it was, the twine spool looked like something out of Alice in Wonderland. with the rabbit sitting on a top hat, and a cane sticking in the ground on the side. Silly Me! 😆
My mother was a bookkeeper at various places. She called it a check punch. It made raised letters on checks. She issued paychecks to other employees and they all had these punched raised numbers on them
The signaling devices are not weapons. They were for one purpose signaling another ship, , testing powder or signaling omeone on shore. It took less powder which is why they were used. Also, it would less of a threat if an ship saw that being loading versus a cannon being loaded. These came after cannons and hand held armaments were common.
I thought I was going to have a perfect record but I knew the duffel bag handle/lock, so that blew my losing streak ;) As others have said pretty sure the last item is a check embosser. We had a couple in my high school business class. Along with manual typewriters, mechanical desktop calculators, dictaphones, and other business equipment from the dark ages.
@@GhostRider-sc9vu No, but that old office equipment was around and in use a lot longer than people realize, especially in small towns. I graduated in the late 70's so I was just at the tail end of a lot of that stuff.
Final item is an audit machine used at brothels to tally the price of each erotic service a custoner received. Prices for each act and position varied.
The last item is a paper check punch or embosser. You mark the amount on the paper check with tiny punched holes in the shapes of the numbers to prevent check washing.
It has no option for printing a zero(?)
@@mb-3faze Good catch. Maybe it defaults to zero until a button is pressed.
@@MileyonDisney My dad had one in his attic, I would stick paper in it and print the numbers out. His was rather fancy.
It is an embosser for cheque writing.
As a kid growing up in the country with an outhouse, rather than a bathroom inside, we had chamber pots that were dubbed 'thunder mugs' as the only time we would want to use them was when there was a storm and we did not want to go outside to use the outhouse. So calling the signal cannons 'thunder mugs', brought back the original meaning for me, and made me wonder why they would call the signal cannons 'thunder mugs?
As for the use of signaling cannons, the ships of today still give salutes to the harbors they are entering for the honor of the presiding dignitaries of the countries they are visiting.
It's a check writer from around the 1930s or 40s
We have 4 of them in storage
I got pretty close with the twine spool!🎉
I thought the last item was for when they printed/embossed company checks, but there is no zero row. 🤷🏻♀️
It probably defaults to zero if no key is pressed. Saves operator time and eliminates an additional row of keys.
The last item is a rare, 1930's Mayan Calendar Translator. Mayan's did not have a zero in their number system so it was difficult for the so called "educated men" of early 1900's to calculate the end of the world. The best they could figure, was Dec. 12th or 21st of the year 2012, but of course now we know it's next Wednesday.
My boss at Arthur Murray Dance Studio "wrote" out our paychecks with the last device shown. Apparently zeros are left when no other key is pushed in a specific number column. The check is embossed with a series of pin holes in the shape of each digit. It makes the check inalterable.
before you said what it was, the twine spool looked like something out of Alice in Wonderland.
with the rabbit sitting on a top hat, and a cane sticking in the ground on the side. Silly Me! 😆
My mother was a bookkeeper at various places. She called it a check punch. It made raised letters on checks. She issued paychecks to other employees and they all had these punched raised numbers on them
I got the signal cannon. They were also used as saluting guns to save powder. I got the log dog, saw many on them in New Brunswick.
I was convinced it was an adding machine but there are no zeros.
last one in a comptometer.
Hopefully the last item isnt used somehow with enemas
The first one is a thunder mug, or signal canon
The signaling devices are not weapons. They were for one purpose signaling another ship, , testing powder or signaling omeone on shore. It took less powder which is why they were used. Also, it would less of a threat if an ship saw that being loading versus a cannon being loaded. These came after cannons and hand held armaments were common.
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I thought I was going to have a perfect record but I knew the duffel bag handle/lock, so that blew my losing streak ;) As others have said pretty sure the last item is a check embosser. We had a couple in my high school business class. Along with manual typewriters, mechanical desktop calculators, dictaphones, and other business equipment from the dark ages.
Class of 1942?😉
@@GhostRider-sc9vu No, but that old office equipment was around and in use a lot longer than people realize, especially in small towns. I graduated in the late 70's so I was just at the tail end of a lot of that stuff.
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That item at 1:06 is an early computer mouse. Or maybe a spline weight. LOL.
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Final item is an audit machine used at brothels to tally the price of each erotic service a custoner received. Prices for each act and position varied.
Note the extra wear on the "6" and "9" keys...