Show HUMAN DEVICE WORKS AS MAN Answers Telephones and Electric Turns on Lights NEW YORK Oct 14 By 14 By The As As- Associated Associated Press A Press A mechanical man whose faculties are arc at both ends of a telephone connection and whose functions functIons imitate those of human workers today held the center of the stage of scientific achievement This modified automaton responds to the voice oice of n B master as CIS effectively as a sen servant ant to the housewife a clerk to a a. broker ani an as mechanic to the garageman The machine an electrical contrivance contrivance contrivance ance known as CIS the was demonstrated here by R R. J. J J Wensley engineer for the Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing company com pan The device de has an extremely sensitive sensitive tive ear attuned to voice sound waves wa that must be del ielY carried to a Nt mechanistic bram Orders are Issued through a 3 tuning fork Into the telephone one to which Is at attached at- at attached attached a small loud speaker The telephone connections are arc made In Inthe inthe I the usual way When the bell rings at atthe atthe the post of the automaton a a. ringing relay calls calIs Into action the equipment I which lifts lilts the receiver Amplifiers then take up the sounds that come over the wire the different sounds thus magnified controlling h different i ri dc tO wires s and the current thus transmit transmit- transmitted t ted throwing on or off a switch as desired The Is 1 contained In a a. box three feet high and two feet wide and I consists of a a. series cries of sound filters amplifiers and magnetic levers It re responds re- re ponds only to sound transmitted by b telephone and only to sounds pitched In certain keys kes i In the demonstration at the first sound sent over o the the auto auto- automatic automatic automatic matic slave lit a series of lights at the second it turned on an electric fan at the third It switched Itched on a 0 search light Three of the machines are In active use by the war department stationed at three reservoirs that supply water to Washington D. D C. C There they the watch o over oyer cr water levels performing perfectly p on a hour a hour day day basis the duties the same number of human workmen would be called upon to do doIn doIn doin In eight hours |