Word: robots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Ohio State's bullet-legged Negro Jesse Owens equaled records in the 100-metre dash, the broad jump. ¶ Indiana University's slim, robot-running Donald Lash (TIME, June 22), having clinched a place on the U. S. Olympic team the evening before with a record-breaking 10,000-metre run, set still another in the 5,000-metre championship. ¶ The University of Southern California's big-boned Harold Smallwood nosed out California's much-touted quarter-milers, Negroes James LuValle and Archie Williams, in the 400-metre race. ¶ Negro Cornelius Johnson who arrived...
Flying blind is nothing new. All trans port pilots do it as a matter of course, letting a robot pilot keep the plane on the flying beam radioed from each major airport. Landing blind is another matter. First done in 1929 by Major James Harold Doolittle while a safety man watched from an open cockpit, it was not successfully executed solo until 1932 when Captain Albert F. Hegenberger managed it at Dayton. Since then, though many a method has been tried for commercial use, none has proved satisfactory enough to permit planes to take-off & land when fog shuts down...
United's system embodies no new principle, is merely a new combination of two well-known mechanisms - the robot pilot and the landing beam system designed in 1933 by the Bureau of Air Commerce. As the plane approaches the airport, it leaves the flying beam and picks up two new beams by means of a special cross-shaped antenna on the plane's nose. One of these is a vertical directional beam about five feet wide at the airport. The other is a lateral, curved landing beam which slants down onto the field from one side, almost vertical...