Rocketbook Fisk

The images show the inventor Admiral Bradley Fisk (detail) with your child - perhaps the first version of what we used to call "reader».

Here is what wrote about the new New York newspaper on March 30, 1926:

"The machine for reading Fisk left the book in the past!

The device, which is made up to the size of a fountain pen and is intended to do away with the heavy and thick books, created by Rear Admiral retired Bradley A. Fiske.

Admiral Fiske has created a working model of his invention, which he says will revolutionize the publishing business and will leave in the past and printing presses. It also makes unnecessary reading glasses.

The device, which Admiral Fiske calls "machine for reading Fisk", consists of a magnifying device for one eye, another guard and mounts for text.

Books for machines made by microfilming the original printing. In such a tiny amount can not be read by the naked eye. The first model was the book of Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad", consisting of 93,000 words. Admiral fit it into a 13-page brochure in three wide and three quarters of an inch and a height of five and three quarters of an inch. "