On this day in 1914 Burrell Cannon was granted the patent application for Apparatus for Automatically Photographing Persons Moving Along a Confined Way. U.S. Patent No. 1,105,484.
This invention has relation to apparatus or means for counting or checking fares or persons by photography, designed to automatically photograph all persons entering a place, building or vehicle where fares or tickets of admission are collected; or it ma be in some cases to photograph persons leaving the place or vehicle.