Word: robotized
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...There is no more reason now to believe that Germany will attack with robot bombs than there was on Nov. 7, 1944" (when the Army & Navy announced that such attacks were merely "possible...
Last week, at a Manhattan show, General Electric showed how to supply the demand: a ''Copper Man" so cunningly contrived that it gets hot & cold just like a human being. This copperplated robot has a network of electric wires which, like a human being's blood system, keeps its skin at body temperature. Its life-size frame, painted black, radiates the equivalent of body heat, and the temperature of various parts of its body can be regulated to duplicate any human condition; e.g., cold feet...
...take it for granted their sons are fighting with the best equipment in the world, are surprised at the German qualitative superiority." But not only with tanks and guns, said Baldwin, have the Germans beaten us on and to the battlefield. They have shown us the way with rockets, robot bombs, jet-propelled planes...
Stressing the exaggerations about the robot bomb, Professor Marks states that "it is a jet-propulsion airplane which substitutes for the gas turbine a device tried out as early as 1908 in the early stages of gas turbine development and which was abandoned then because its efficiency was only about two and one-half percent...
...efficiency of the device," he went on to say, "limits the range of action of the robot. Nevertheless, it has the great advantage of avoiding the use of machinery, and in that respect it functions like a rocket although it takes the air required for combustion from the outside...