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Simple Stitcher. The Vigorelli "Robot," a sewing machine that can change its pattern of stitch without stopping or slowing down, was shown off in Manhattan. Hailed as "the world's first completely automatic home sewing machine." the machine also has a knob for selecting any of ten different types of embroidery stitch. Price...
...headed, among other places, for the rocket proving grounds at White Sands, N. Mex. for talks with a very special kind of scientist. You may remember the result: a cover story on space travel (TIME. Dec. 8, 1952), with Artist Artzybasheff's striking cover painting of a lunar robot (see above). Reaction to the space story came jet-fast to Leonard: five publishers asked if he would expand the story into book length. This week the book was published: Flight into Space (307 pp.), Random House ($3.50). It is Leonard's ninth book, five of the others being...
...plenty of other products to keep him hustling. He still has a big backlog of Air Force C-ngs, and three Fairchild plants on Long Island are busy making everything from components for J47 turbojet engines to Fairchild's own J44 turbojet to power the Firebee robot target plane. Fairchild is also 1) working on a new, 25-ton pocket submarine, and 2) experimenting with a small lightweight earthmover that can be carried...
...Robot Salesmen. At the National Automatic Merchandising Association convention in Chicago, manufacturers showed the latest vending machines, which will dispense anything from an ice cream cone to a shot of shaving cream. In addition to machines that serve hot or cold sandwiches and chocolate sundaes, make change and give massages, there was an automatic vendor, suitable for race tracks and ballparks, that is installed under a seat and delivers a seat cushion in return...
...elevator trend to robot machines is growing. Otis Elevator Co. is building 30 operatorless elevators for Prudential's 41-story Chicago offices, and robot elevators now account for 75% of Otis' sales, v. only...