Word: robotized
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...Subscriber Squires improve his knowledge: 1) the rape of old words to fill new needs is in the best tradition of the fine, illogical English language; 2) euiconogenic is not a word, it is a Greek robot...
...from the degrees of interest shown by the public in their exhibits, the coin machine manufacturers last week foresaw the passing of Bagatelle, increasing popularity for new bowling (Skee-ball), ray shooting and baseball games, games that actually play. Most impressive of these was Inventor Frank Train's robot checker player, a 7-ft., 650-lb. aluminum "Magic Brain'' which has been touring the country as a publicity stunt for Radio Corporation of America, and which will be sold commercially at $10,000 each around April 15. Second best advertised was a baseball game called "1937 World...
...movies' "canned" musical accompaniments had thrown 10,000 musicians into the streets. Radio stations began to use "electrical transcriptions" more & more, performers less & less. The American Federation of Musicians groped for a way to fight this displacement, had to content itself with issuing cruel cartoons and advertisements attacking "robot music" (TIME...
Telescope Robot. Photographing the spectrum of a distant star, even in Mt. Wilson's giant telescope, may take four or five hours. One of astronomers' most tedious chores is to sit on a lofty, cramped perch at the eyepiece during these long exposures, in order to keep the cross-wires of the telescope centred exactly on the star image. Beautifully accurate as it is, the drive mechanism which swings the telescope along with the star's westward movement cannot be synchronized with absolute perfection. Atmospheric disturbances also may dislodge the star image from the cross-wires. Last...
...Camp Transparent Woman is not a robot in the sense of having movable parts, nor does any fluid circulate in her veins and arteries. Her virtue as an educational instrument is that each organ may be separately illuminated for the study of minute details. For this purpose the figure is equipped with 20 pairs of lamps. Since these are of only four volts each, the exhibit has its own motor-generator. No more than a few organs are lighted at one time, to avoid overheating...