Smokin' Robots! Elektro-To-Hit-The-Road-Again--
NPR informs us that "America's First Celebrity Robot Is Staging A Comeback."
A replica of Elektro, Westinghouse's bronzed spokesman from the 1939 New York World's Fair, will be touring the nation soon. The original Elektro is safe in the Mansfield Museum in Mansfield, Ohio.
No word on his faithful robocanine companion, Sparko.
Here's a large collection of photos of Elektro and Sparko. Here's Scott Schaut's self-published book The Robots of Westinghouse 1924-Today (which I have not read).
A replica of Elektro, Westinghouse's bronzed spokesman from the 1939 New York World's Fair, will be touring the nation soon. The original Elektro is safe in the Mansfield Museum in Mansfield, Ohio.
No word on his faithful robocanine companion, Sparko.
Here's a large collection of photos of Elektro and Sparko. Here's Scott Schaut's self-published book The Robots of Westinghouse 1924-Today (which I have not read).