Word: wensley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time. In fiction there is usually an amateur on hand to simplify the C. I. D.'s work. In actuality, for many a long year, the master mind of Scotland Yard, the prototype of Sherlock Holmes, a sleuth in no need of amateur assistance, has been Chief Constable Frederick Wensley, a real super-detective credited with solving more murders than any living...
...Actress O'Neill's dismay, Chief Constable Wensley had announced his resignation just before her loss was discovered. The coincidence suggested a new plot to detective-story authors, but to her it just seemed jolly bad luck. Able though his assistants and successors might be, it would have been a lark to have one's jewels found, one's would-be poisoner apprehended, by the greatest Sherlock of them...
...Click, click, click, buzz," answered a Televox upon the signal of its inventor, R. J. Wensley, over an ordinary telephone last evening, and proceeded to turn on electric lights, start electric fans and trains and do other almost human things in the presence of a CRIMSON reporter. The Televox, which, was exhibited at the training school of the Boston Elevated Company, is the nearest approach to the long-sought "mechanical man". It consists of an imaginative cardboard figure of a man surrounding a complex electric outfit which forms the man's "heart...
...Wensley, Westinghouse electric engineer, had an invitation to entertain the National Masonic League Level Club in Manhattan last week with his televox system, wherein tones of certain pitch affect electrified diaphragms, which cause electromagnets to go this way & that, which make machinery go & stop...
Electrician Wensley was prompted to forecast: "I can envision the day when possibly a race of 500,000 of these men will be at the beck & call of humanity. . . . We have already got an order from a gentleman who has a country estate. He wants a robot...