Word: robotics
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...score of skeletons laid out on stone slabs, the Harvard diggers found more than 2,000 objects. In gold there were pendants studded with semiprecious stones, bead necklaces, cuffs, rods with decorated tips which the Coclés stuck in their ears, breastplates embossed with strange monsters, plaques bearing robot-like human faces. There were mirrors of hematite, agate beads and pendants, statuets carved from ribs of the manatee (sea cow), spearpoints made of sting-ray spines and sawfish teeth, shark's tooth necklaces, wild boars' tusks set in gold...
...radio attachment which silences the set when music stops playing and someone begins to talk. The "robot" takes advantage of the fact that talkers must stop for breath. When it detects a quarter-second of silence it turns the set off for ten seconds, tries again & again until it gets continuous sound...
...world. Two years ago with Navigator Harold Gatty, he made an 8½-day record which he now proposed to beat by a generous margin. He was flying alone this time, but with a Sperry automatic pilot and a directional radio. Through fog, heavy clouds and snow, Pilot Post, robot & radio cut a superbly accurate course to Berlin in the phenomenal time of 25 hr. 45 min. The slowness of mechanics at Tempelhof Airdrome enraged him. "Damn it, I want to push on," he fumed, and paced the field impatiently for two hours while mechanics turned the cranks of slow...
...Hawks held the controls for a little less than one-third of the time-the first two hours out of Los Angeles, the last two hours before landing in Brooklyn. The rest of the time, the ship was guided by "Mr. Zilch," Commander Hawks's name for a robot pilot built by George De Besson, California engineer. Said Pilot Hawks: ''The only trouble was I got sleepy...
...chemistry transmutes coal, wood, oil, rubber, minerals into paints, dyes, soaps, explosives, paper, food. He will see laid bare the basic mysteries not only of his radio, telephone, refrigerator, automobile but even his own body, in models with beating heart, breathing lungs, circulating blood. A huge steel robot, ten feet high, will point to foods on a table and lecture metallically on food chemistry and nutrition, tracing the foods through its own illuminated digestive tract...