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ROANOKE RAPIDS—K'STELEVOX SERVANT COMINGPCunt,ts, by onday chargesameet«r i of me be-luring tried i from le tfce ■tri-in his tedica ly re-Mon-SpeiWestinghouse $22,000 Robot To Be At High SchoolrHlerebounty public th the Oc-ly and ctoberghway /eldon idition 10 has 'enccs.x* the mpted. is and y thehan in n. list. Herald w be-8 and hanip-s and I with are ta en-?s for front irts, o g and Vhing y andan be-8 howsChld-schoolMiss Katrina Van Televox, mechanical servant, developed by the Weettnghouse Electric and Mamrfae-tvrtng Company, will be the principal attraction at the cooking school to be held at Roanoke Rapids High SfcVodl auditorium at 2:30 p. m., Sep-tmriber 25. Katrina will be brought *o Roanoke Rapids by the Virginia Electric and Power Company.One of the unusual features of this cooking school is to be Miss Ka-trian Van Televox, the now famous Wedtbighouae Electrical 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 witb Vis accomplishments as an electrical robot servant and who is now talcing the place of men in the operation 'and control of sub-stations, power plants and airport lights. Miss Katrina, however, confines herself to domestic duties and will in person demonstrate the Westinghouse Electric Flavor Zone Range at the cooking schedL She will talk, run a sweeper, make coffee, toast and operate lights. Mr. Armstrong, representative of the West-nghousc Electric and Manufacturing Company, and also Katrimfo boy riend, says that she is less *than a car old and cannot walk yet, but he xpects to have her running around in a few yeara. Katrina, unlike most women, responds to a low crooning whistle, the more you whittle, the more she does, but, says ,Mr. Armstrong, “If you dork get the right une, she is liable to play thc-*victrola vhen you want her to open the garage dooraThe Televox mechanism is consid-red to he orre of the most remarkable electrical or mechanical inventions 'f the last ten years. It is. perhaps the nearest Thing that has ever been created to n human being. Herbert and Katrina, members of the'Televox family .answer th e$?lcphone, respond to commands -given them over the phone, tell what they an* doing, and when yno say gund-bye 'To them, lang up the receiver. They are the •esult of six years’ study and re-corch. They are the -crilniiiuKtfun of the efforts of some of the molrt bril-iant engineers m the lt;country. Roy Wensley, Weetinghouse Electric Engineer, is the man from whose head sprang the idea of a race of automatons to do acTwal work. He •’liiffers rom Karl Capek, author of R. *U. R., n that Wensley*s family of robots ac-ually does work formally byhuman being*. O-TlfacuIleaP«f«■tty-They«atTlcoai(be'therwlUtheMialchU»pie.AarthathasThrunitraldaslHHarSMis: •vinnc m “Hural to thlt;daceWashiMr.C., to«reoeiv.for threpresrcceivti.kinp This Farm f all Farm Mr. 1 of nu the cnotes points contes that t Junior They most work le ir he c •onte« toanl hat * .n the Aui grate1 eigh C. G. ield -'or th
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The Herald Of The Twin Cities Roanoke Rapids Rosemary
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, US
Thu, Sep 18, 1930
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