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Dec. 09 Introducing Leo The Electronic Office Science comes to the aid of the industrial office worker - Less than one hour to calculate and record the wages of 1700 men both individually and collectively invoicing and cost accounting in a mere fraction of the time normally taken toy human methods. Achievements like this are now a regular feature at a large London undertaking which employs 32, 000 people (2, 800 clerks) (J. Lyons Cadby Hall); On its own account the Electronics department of the firm, working with the Comptroller of the Accounts department, has developed the first all purpose commercial electronic high speed calculator ever built anywhere in the world. called Leo it is not just another electronic brain, It is basically an electronic calculator. but means have been perfected of feeding the machine with information as fast as it can absorb it and at the other and of recording results in printed form Just as fast as the machine can produce them. Any commercial of floe work involving repetitive calculation is with its scope and with it clerks cal look forward to a new era free from arithmetical drudgery in which they can be concerned far more with the interesting task of interpreting figures rather than producing them. Six years of research have gone into Leo which has a surprising versatility. Already it has done work for insurance people on guided missiles and other such calculations. More than 5, 000 valves were used in the construction and dozens of miles of wiring. Operation is simple and control possible at all stages. This is a picture from a series showing various aspects of Leo The man and the machine:Dr. J. Pinkerton at the control panel of Leo the electronic office. Dr. Pinkerton is an Electronics Engineer working for J. Lyons developed Leo the Electronic Office especially to the requirements of the 33, 000 staff organization for which he works. It took him six years of work. Already he used it

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