New Automatic Device Answers Phone, Records Message (Aug, 1934)
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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
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New Automatic Device Answers Phone, Records Message
PAUL H. ROWE, a Los Angeles sound engineer, has perfected a nearly human robot that answers his telephone perfectly when he is out.
The ringing of the telephone bell starts this ingenious machine operating, and whatever the caller says is received by a microphone and recorded. When Rowe returns, he is able to listen to whatever messages have come in.
