Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telephone slaves a Swiss robot now promises freedom. Its name: Ipsophone. This amazing, almost human instrument automatically answers phone calls, gives and takes messages, rebuffs unwanted callers with a busy signal, records long conversations, and faithfully plays back everything it has heard whenever its master chooses to listen...
...instrument, which includes an ordinary telephone receiver, a wire recorder and a push-button control box, is the first fully automatic telephonograph. If its owner is busy or out, the gadget patiently waits out four rings, then croaks: "This is the Ipsophone, Blank Company, Mr. Smith's office. Attention. Please speak-now." If the caller is struck speechless, the machine waits politely for twelve seconds then repeats its invitation. The Ipsophone will listen for up to half an hour without interruption, recording every word...
...along with people." This time he was the man who had not been able to get along with Trippe. He had felt that Trippe was hurting Pan Am by: 1) going back on his promise to hire a top operating man; 2) plumping for his monopolistic Chosen Instrument...
...first impression of anticlimax soon gave way to serious comments. Said London's News Chronicle: "Nothing could detract from the essential solemnity of the occasion-not even the vulgar high spirits that . . . painted on this instrument of fate the picture of a pinup star 'in a low-cut gown.' We cannot defy history by guffawing in her face...
...sincere Latin American democrat was worried by the prospect of more pistols for Panchito. "The intentions, as almost invariably, are sterling. The effects, deplorable," said one thoughtful Latin American last week. "You equip a dictator's army to modern standards and you provide the dictator with an unfailing instrument to perpetuate his tyranny. Do the same in a fledgling Latin American democracy, and you strengthen the already heady military caste...