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Miss Katrina Van Televox Will Be A Principal Attraction Here Later In~ April At The Daily Cooking SchoolOne of the unusual featuresThe Decatur Dally cooking schoolto be staged here April 28-30, May1-2, is to be Miss Katrina Van Televox, the now famous Westinghouse Electric mechanical woman who actually talks, cooks meals, runs a vacuum cleaner, turns on fans and lights, and in general makes herself useful as a household servant Miss Katrina is a sister of Herbert Televox, who, if you remember, startled scientists two years ago withhis accomplishments as an electrical robot servant and who is now taking the place of men in the operation and control of sub-stations, power plants and airport lights Miss Katrina, however, confinesherself to domestic duties. She will talk, run a sweeper, make coffee,toast, and operate Ught®. Robert Morris, representative of the Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing company, and also Katrina’s boy friend, says that she is less than a y«ar old and cannot walk yet, but lie expects to have her running around in a few years, Katrina,uottke most women, responds to *low crooning whistle, the more you whistle the more she does, but, says Morris, “If you don’t get the right tune, she is liable to play the vic-trola when you want her to open the garage doors ”The Tele Vox mechanism is considered to be-one of the most remarkable electrical or mechanicalinventions of the last ten years. Itis perhaps the nearest thing that has ever been created to a human being, Herbert and Katrina, members of the Televox family, answer the telephone, respond to given them over the phone, tell what they are doing, and when you say good-bye to them, hang up the receiver. They are the result of six years’ study and research. They are the culmination of the efforts of some of the most brilliant engineers in the ©ountry. Hoy Wensiey, Westinghouse Electric engineer is the man from whose head sprang the idea of a race of automaton* to do actual work, He differs from Karl Capek, author of R. U. R„ in that Wensiey s family of robots actually dews work formerly done by human beings.
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Decatur Daily
Decatur, Alabama, US
Fri, Apr 11, 1930
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