Word: robots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baltimore Sun found the newly equipped Condor at the Berliner-Joyce aircraft plant, shrewdly wrote that Eastern Air Transport proposed to use it in regular service. The transport company was deeply embarrassed because it had not yet applied to the Department of Commerce for permission to use the robot. To check further gossip and placate the Department, it conducted last week's public flight, stated with great emphasis that it was "preliminary to official flights soon to be made for inspectors of the Department of Commerce...
Although it is often referred to as the "robot pilot," the Sperry device is not supposed to take the place of a plane's crew. The human pilot must take his plane off and land it. But once in the air and on his course he adjusts the automatic device to the proper compass direction, throws in a clutch, turns his attention to weather maps, radio reports. The risk of blind flying is eliminated; the automatic pilot requires no visibility to remain on course and on even keel. Moreover, the device flies a plane more smoothly than a human...
Intermittently from 1915 to 1920 a robot called Mike, then Fritz von Blitz the Kaiser's Hoodoo, then Percy the Mechanical Man, performed prodigies of senseless versatility in the U. S. funny-papers (New York Herald et al). Cartoonist Harry Cornel Greening equipped his creature with a row of buttons down the back which, when pushed, set Percy to his tasks. Only trouble-and chief source of comedy-was that, being brainless as well as tireless, Percy would keep on doing whatever he started until someone pushed another of his buttons. Thus, stoking a warship, when he had stoked...
Robert Tyre Jones Jr. likes being called "Robot, the Mechanical Man of Golf," better than a lot of other names to which sportswriters, their superlatives utterly exhausted, have had resort. Before and since his appearance in the golfing firmament in 1916 (one year after Percy), he has had no peer but Percy, and making oneself a mechanically perfect golfer-when one is equipped with temper, indolence, misgivings and other frailties to which robots are heir-is as satisfactory, when accomplished, as it is difficult...