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| Title | Man lighting cigar on Televox, 1929 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1929 |
| Caption | In 1927, Westinghouse engineers developed the Televox, a telephone-operated industrial switching machine. Using three tones carried over telephone wire, the Televox could regulate the flow of gas, water, or electricity in factories or utility plants by instructing electrical relays to open or close in specific sequences. Before this time, a human switch operator had to be present at each step. In addition to operating electrical relay switches, this 'mechanical man' could also move its arms and lift a telephone receiver. |
| Notes | Handwritten on image: Televox.
Handwritten on sleeve: Man - mechanical.
Caption by MOHAI staff.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): July 17, 1929. |
| Subjects | Robots--Washington (State); Telephones--Washington (State); Machinery--Washington (State) |
| Places | United States--Washington (State) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI21644 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 glass negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in.; corner missing |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
