A TELEPHONE ROBOT
British Post Office engineers are experimenting with a new robot telephone device which will take messages for an absent subscriber. It will make the telephone an automatic private secretary. It embodies tho most advanced system of mechanised voice reproduction ever achieved. Tho apparatus will record messages, reproduce them to the subscriber at any set time, and tell if anyone has rung up during the subscriber's absence. To record a message to an absent subscriber the caller will speak into a small microphone. The message will bo automatically picked up on a roll of strip paper. Later the subscriber will merely setthe dial of a clock attached to tho instrument, and the robot voico will deliver the message. /
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22444, 13 June 1936, Page 9 (Supplement)
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120A TELEPHONE ROBOT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22444, 13 June 1936, Page 9 (Supplement)
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