Word: robots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inside the huge cabin the six stalwart young men in blue uniforms and white caps were too busy to do anything but their jobs. With the ship guided by a robot pilot and directional radio beam, Captain Edwin C. Musick and Chief Pilot Sullivan checked the course with blind-flying instruments. Engineering Officer Wright had 71 other instruments to read. Weather reports were received every 20 minutes, position reports transmitted every half-hour. The ship flew steadily at 6,000 ft. above a heavy layer of clouds, blotting out the ocean. As night fell Navi gation Officer Noonan made...
Newshawks, already titillated by a Douglas "mystery ship" at nearby Santa Monica (see col. 1), sensed in the windowless transport an even bigger mystery. The story got around that the plane would take off without a soul inside, fly straight to Honolulu by means of a "robot" pilot and directional radio. Finally it was established that Director Vidal was only testing out a compass-a radio "homing" device which, he thought, might revolutionize long-distance flying over water. It had been used by the late Macon, it had been tested for more than a year by the Army Air Corps...
...Robot at Raleigh...
...Last week Alpha, the robot, made its first public appearance in the U. S.... on the fifth floor of R. H. Macy & Co.'s department store" (TIME...
...such pictures as King Kong Hollywood has devised automatons capable of more complex movements than Alpha, but never one that responded to the human voice. Anxious to avoid any suspicion of ventriloquism or of a hidden assistant pushing control buttons, Professor May removed the robot's breast plate, disclosing a mechanism like the interior of an ordinary radio. Publicly he explained that Alpha's repertory of answers consisted of 20 or 30 recordings on wax cylinders, as in oldtime phonographs, which were run off in the control cabinets and reproduced from the loud speaker in the robot...