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...Click, click, click, buzz," answered a Televox upon the signal of its inventor, R. J. Wensley, over an ordinary telephone last evening, and proceeded to turn on electric lights, start electric fans and trains and do other almost human things in the presence of a CRIMSON reporter. The Televox, which, was exhibited at the training school of the Boston Elevated Company, is the nearest approach to the long-sought "mechanical man". It consists of an imaginative cardboard figure of a man surrounding a complex electric outfit which forms the man's "heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mechanical Man Throws Electric Switches at Sound of Its Inventor's Voice--Televox Developed for Remote Control | 12/14/1928 | See Source »

...Leonardo da Vinci, Engineer and Inventor," Mr. Usher, Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/12/1928 | See Source »

...Leonardo da Vinci, Engineer and inventor", Mr. Usher, Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/11/1928 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Sabin A. von Sochocky, 45, inventor of luminous radium paint; from aplastic anaemia due to radium poisoning; in Orange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 26, 1928 | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Latest and most spectacular of all Opel experiments is the low, winged rocket car. Inventor Valier, Builder Sanders, tried it secretly last April over the Opel tracks in Munich. But in June, young Fritz von Opel, sporting son of a gruff Geheimrat, sent it at a speed of 156 miles per hour over railroad tracks near Hanover. Nine-foot streaks of flame from the exploding rockets trailed its deafening roar. A solitary cat, its only passenger, trembled. Suddenly it skipped the track; the remaining rockets blew up; cat and car burst into a thousand blazing fragments. Spectators cried, "Devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Opel of Russelheim | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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