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| Psychophonic Nurse | ||
| A child-care robot - a nanny bot. |
| "I had her made by the Eastinghouse Electric Company. You see, she's just a machine nurse, but as she doesn't eat anything, is on duty twenty-four hours a day, and draws no salary, she's cheap at the price I paid."
"...let me show you how she works. She's made of a combination of springs, levers, acoustic intruments, and by means of tubes such as are used in the radio, she's very sensitive to sounds. She's connected to the house current by a long, flexible cord, which supplies her with the necessary energy. To simplify matters, I had the orders put into numbers instead of sentences. One means that the baby is to be fed; seven that she's to be changed..." "...When I ordered this machine ... I bought a phonograph with clock attachment. It will run for twenty-four hours without attention. Then I had a baby doctor work out a twenty-four hour programme of infant activity for different ages. Our baby is about two months old. You put this phonograph with the two-month record on it in the nursery... At definite periods of the twenty-four hours the phonograph will call out a number and the nurse will do what is necessary... |
| From The Psychophonic Nurse,
by David H. Keller. Published by Amazing Stories in 1928 Additional resources -
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Diaper changes happen irregularly, but that's not a problem; see the entry for electric diaper.
Take a look at this 1928 illustration of the Psychophonic Nurse by Frank R. Paul.
(Psychophonic Nurse illustration by Frank R Paul)
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