A new Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. device last week proved the Pittsburgh aphorism that, when Necessity mothers Invention at Westinghouse, the labor is slight. A company engineer goes to work and by & by the requirement is filled. Last week's device was a machine for parking motorcars in a stack. The inventor was Henry Duvall James, 56, consulting engineer. The necessity was finding parking space for the company's Pittsburgh employes.
Mr. James's machine, ready for sale last week, is an endless conveyor set on end. The motorist runs his car into a cage....
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