Word: robots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January dinner of the exclusive New York Gourmet Society, during a silence after applause, Emily Post (Etiquette) spilled a spoonful of Swedish lingonberries on the tablecloth. Calmly she said: "People generally think I'm made of tin, a sort of mechanical robot...
Described last week in the Franklin Institute's Journal was an electrical robot which, taking advantage of the differences between voltage phases, performs this trial & error in a few minutes instead of hours or days. Designed by Engineer Harry C. Hart and others of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, it is a complex but small and neat layout of generators with movable stators, potentiometers, gears, cams, rectifiers, amplifiers, etc. Reduced to simplest terms, a series of potentiometers (low-resistance voltmeters) is set to correspond to the coefficients of the equations to be solved...
...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...