North Cache News | 1945-10-12 | Page 7 | Robot has Repertoire of 3,000 Tunes for Zither |

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Date	1945-10-12
Paper	North Cache News
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Article Title	Robot has Repertoire of 3,000 Tunes for Zither
Type	article
Date	1945-10-12
Paper	North Cache News
Page	7
OCR Text	Show Robot Has Repertoire of 3,000 Tunes for Zither Probably the most incredible robot ro-bot ever made in this country is a life-sized figure of the Egyptian goddess Isis, a recent invention Df Dr. Cecil Nixon of San Francisco, Francis-co, says Collier's. Isis reclines on a couch containing her mechanism mecha-nism which is comprised of 370 electromagnets, 1,187 wheels, 2,233 sections of wire and a score of Dther secret gadgets. With a pick on one finger of each hand, for plucking the strings of the zither on her lap, the lady plays any one of 3,000 tunes requested re-quested of her by any person within with-in 12 feet, her machinery being set in motion by the vibrations of Ihe human voice.
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