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...that marched and danced in various temple ceremonies. But the king of all robotmakers was Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772-1838), creator of the metronome, who also constructed an automatic orchestra called the Panharmonicon, which could simulate violins, cellos, clarinets, flutes, trumpets, drums, cymbals and triangle. For this contraption, the inventor commissioned Beethoven to compose his Vittoria Symphony, Maelzel also toured America with a robot chess player that was actually operated from inside by a hunchbacked Alsatian dwarf named Schlumberger...
...premier peddler of the new machines showing up in business offices is neither IBM nor Xerox, but An Wang, 61, a Chinese-born inventor who founded Wang Laboratories in 1951. The Lowell, Mass., company produces state-of-the-art equipment for the office of the future. Wang Laboratories dominates the market for so-called integrated information systems. These are elaborate combination of computerized word and data processors, high-speed printers, telecommunications hook-ins and video display terminals used by secretaries and their bosses. And such office innovations are likely to continue. Says Wang: "The cost of parts keeps getting lower...
...inventor of Minute Rice, Ataullah K. Ozai-Durrani, was an immigrant who came to the U.S. from Afghanistan...
...their struggle against foreign imports, which captured a record 29.2% of U.S. auto sales last month, American carmakers have an unlikely ally. He is Walter Avrea, 56, a Tempe, Ariz., inventor who is waging his own war with Japan's manufacturers...
...Commission to halt imports of Japanese cars. Under the Trade Act of 1974, the I.T.C. would at least have to investigate Avrea's complaint. Neither Ford nor GM will comment on Avrea's campaign, but nothing would bolster Detroit's spirits more than watching the plucky inventor devise a way to block those popular imports...