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Hammond Electric Bridge Table
The Hammond Electric Bridge Table was an electromechanical automatic card shuffling machine that dealt playing cards at random to four bridge players. The mechanism was built into a card table. The main concept of the machine was as a labor saving aid for bridge players in dealing out the hands. The invention was an offspring from the Hammond Clock Company as an additional product. It was a popular device when first introduced at the pre-Christmas season of 1932. That was short lived, however, and production lasted only a couple of years.
== Development ==
The device has its origins with the Hammond Clock Company which was formed by Laurens Hammond in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois. By 1932, over one hundred clock companies had gone out of business due to the Great Depression but Hammond was determined to remain solvent and created new products for the company to sell. One such product was an automatic card dealer. Hammond was a bridge player and a mechanical engineer and he put the two together and invented the Hammond Electric Bridge Table. This was an automatic playing card dealing apparatus that was specifically designed for use in contract bridge.〔 〕 The electric bridge mechanism was patented on November 29, 1932 and the patent for the card table that contained it was filed the day before.〔
〕〔 〕 It was the first bridge table to automatically shuffle and deal cards using electricity.
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