Mechanical Willie (Aug, 1934)
Filed under: Robots, Useless Tech — @ 2:54 pm
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Aug, 1934
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Aug, 1934
| Buy on Ebay
Great strides have been made in reducing the size of Mechanical “Willies” in the last 70 years.
Mechanical “Willie” Combines Crooning With Housework
CROONING in mellow baritone on command and manipulating a vacuum cleaner with almost human skill, “Mechanical Willie,” laboratory robot, may prove a novel servant.The product of Westinghouse engineers, Willie salutes, raises flags, smokes, sits, stands and bows at the operator’s orders. Words spoken via a receiver are transformed by a photo electric cell into light beams which transmit impulses to his operating mechanism.
Aren’t mechanical willies outlawed in most of the southern states?
Comment by Jaber — February 29, 2008 @ 6:36 pm
Oh come on, even in ‘34 this had to be a joke!
Comment by Wade George — May 26, 2008 @ 6:14 pm
You can be sore if its a Westinghouse!
Comment by carlm — September 16, 2008 @ 3:54 am
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