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Word: robots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor May, a dapper, blond, beak-nosed man in his middle thirties, signaled his assistant who drew a curtain behind the stage, revealing the massive control cabinets to which the robot was wired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Robot | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...robot clicked and whirred. Pivoting at knees and waist, it slowly stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Robot | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

When commanded, the robot lowered its arm, raised the other, lowered it, turned its head from side to side, opened and closed its prognathous jaw, sat down. Then Impresario May asked Alpha a question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Robot | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...From the robot's interior a cavernous Cockney voice responded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Robot | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

Alpha's master asked his auditors to give any of his questions and commands, using exactly the same words. Sometimes the robot responded promptly, sometimes not until Professor May repeated the words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Robot | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

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