Word: televox
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...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...