Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1921 — Page 3

The first Stevenson Multiple Shaper, an experimental • I model made of an ordinary Singer sewing machine that * the inventor bought at a junk shop for one dollar. The principle of the Multiple Shaper Is so simple and so “ positive that it operated successfully even on this crude model, which cut its first gears on December 3, 1918.

Substantial as a Product of Ages

irNTO 27 brief months the untiring energy, inventive resource and expert artisanry | of the Stevenson organization have compressed actual accomplishment of amazing magnitude. An enterprise that had no precedent was launched—one without any earlier history from which to draw experience; anew conception in the manufacturing

world with no guides or landmarks to show the way. As its start it had only the germ of inspiration; the bare idea conceived in the genius of the inventor, without influence, capital, equipment, prestige or tangible assets of any kind to aid in the making it a reality. Now the epochal rapidity of its transition from that invisible vibration of thought to the present massive, material, actual success, is impressive evidence of the tremendous and genuine value to humanity of this new creation. No merely ordinary undertaking could have encompassed such growth no device of limited range of service to mankind could have won such a following. As gears form essential components of mechanism used in practically every w r alk of life and by all classes of people from richest to poorest, this new process of gear production is linked vitally with all the world’s greatest industries.

And as the mechanism in actual iron and steel has grown from the first tiny experimental model to the great new Multiple Shaper with its ponderous bulk and gigantic power, so the institution organized about it has grown in strength, in solidity and in assured financial success.

942 Daly Street Indianapolis, Indiana “One Good Investment is Worth a Whole Lifetime of Labor.”

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m A The newest and greatest Stevenson Multiple Shaper. More than seven and one-half ton* of IV A % Iron and steel, every part built with thousandth-of an inch accuracy, perfectly fitting, fault*, llva less la operation. Designed to cut 300 automobile transmission gears every hour.

The present week is the last opportunity to secure a share of the direct benefits in this great new industrial development. Such rich opportunity for profitable investment must of necessity be both brief and rare. The date set for closing sale of Stevenson Gear Stock is Saturday March sth. It is hardly probable that those who fail to take advantage of the big chance before that date will ever have another such chance in all their lives. If you have simply been putting off definite action “until you get around to it,” NOW’S THE TlME—now or never, to make good. If you have not been interested because you haven’t known or haven’t understood what the Stevenson Multiple Shaper is, what it does or what its value is to the world, in justice to yourself you can’t afford to remain ignorant any longer. Inquire. Find out. Get the facts. Write, telephone or visit the Stevenson gear plant in person, to see for yourself. Use your own judgment. Form your own conclusions. Don’t take our word for it; get the proof, but—don’t remain in ignorance of anything as vital to the industrial prosperity and progress of Indianapolis and of the United States, as the Stevenson Multiple Shaper. You are cordially invited to visit the Stevenson Gear Factory, 942 Daly Street, to view the Stevenson Multiple Shaper in operation. Come and see how these machines are built. Meet the men who make them. Investigate every detail. +Then mould your opinion with the facts as you find them.

** The Stevenson Multiple Shaper In imIMrt / proved form, as it appeared on May 28, I 111- A 1919, on which date this machine in actual test cut 733 Gixteeu-tooth twentypitrh gears in a single hour. Although this is many times the number of gears that could be cut in the same period by any other method, careful tests and measurements by certified micrometers showed that these gears cut by the Stevenson Process were actually more true more accurate and more uniform than the best that were made in other ways—a wonderful combination of economy and quality.