Word: robots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Alpha, the robot, made its first public appearance in the U. S. One of the most ingenious automatons ever contrived by man, a grim and gleaming monster 6 ft. 4 in. tall, the robot was brought to Manhattan by its owner-inventor-impresario, Professor Harry May of London, and installed on the fifth floor of R. H. Macy & Co.'s department store. Encased from head to foot in chromium-plated steel armor, Alpha sat on a specially constructed dais with its cumbrous feet securely bolted to the floor, stared impassively over the knot of newshawks and store...
...that happiness and peace shall never be his. He does not want the things which he has achieved; he merely wants to achieve them and call them his. His blinding ambitions has dehumanized him so utterly that he no longer is a feeling, loving human, but a grasping, cruel robot, who sweeps everything before him. He is not unkind or inconsiderate to those whom he has succeeded in dominating, for they no longer mean anything to him. He drives onward to a goal which he does not know until finally he is destroyed by the shattered roots of his past...
...score of skeletons laid out on stone slabs, the Harvard diggers found more than 2,000 objects. In gold there were pendants studded with semiprecious stones, bead necklaces, cuffs, rods with decorated tips which the Coclés stuck in their ears, breastplates embossed with strange monsters, plaques bearing robot-like human faces. There were mirrors of hematite, agate beads and pendants, statuets carved from ribs of the manatee (sea cow), spearpoints made of sting-ray spines and sawfish teeth, shark's tooth necklaces, wild boars' tusks set in gold...
...radio attachment which silences the set when music stops playing and someone begins to talk. The "robot" takes advantage of the fact that talkers must stop for breath. When it detects a quarter-second of silence it turns the set off for ten seconds, tries again & again until it gets continuous sound...
...world. Two years ago with Navigator Harold Gatty, he made an 8½-day record which he now proposed to beat by a generous margin. He was flying alone this time, but with a Sperry automatic pilot and a directional radio. Through fog, heavy clouds and snow, Pilot Post, robot & radio cut a superbly accurate course to Berlin in the phenomenal time of 25 hr. 45 min. The slowness of mechanics at Tempelhof Airdrome enraged him. "Damn it, I want to push on," he fumed, and paced the field impatiently for two hours while mechanics turned the cranks of slow...