RECENTLY-DEVELOPED “ ARTIFICIAL MAN.” Among the recent successes in communication is the newly-developed “ Televox," or artificial man,” an electrical device perfected by Mr R. J. Wensley, of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, who is seen in the picture (at right) showing Dr H. Clyde Snook, consulting engineer, of New York, how the machine canbe called on an ordinary telephone and made to start the family furnace, or to turn out the light, or to perform almost any other task in response to musical tones sent over the telephone wires as signals to the machine’s electrical brain. —U. & U., photo
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Otago Witness, Issue 3861, 13 March 1928, Page 41
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99RECENTLY-DEVELOPED “ ARTIFICIAL MAN.” Among the recent successes in communication is the newly-developed “ Televox," or artificial man,” an electrical device perfected by Mr R. J. Wensley, of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, who is seen in the picture (at right) showing Dr H. Clyde Snook, consulting engineer, of New York, how the machine canbe called on an ordinary telephone and made to start the family furnace, or to turn out the light, or to perform almost any other task in response to musical tones sent over the telephone wires as signals to the machine’s electrical brain. —U. & U., photo Otago Witness, Issue 3861, 13 March 1928, Page 41
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