1968 – Miss Honeywell – James Wilson (American)

MISS HONEYWELL Olympia, London. – Issue Date: 27/06/1968 At the Instruments, Electronics and Automatic Exhibition we see a futuristic 'robot girl' demonstrating various pieces of equipment by computer company Honeywell Controls Ltd. A man takes the headless robot body from a cupboard and puts a circuit disc into her back. Putting the body back in …

1932 – Mr. Robot – William Hutter (American)

The Canberra Times < Saturday 23 July 1932  p5 ROBOT AS SUPER-SALESMAN Robot, the super orator and salesman, who never stutters or forgets, and whose tongue never makes a disastrous slip, is the new mechanical talking man invented by Mr. William Hutter, chief engineer of the wireless company of Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. He …

1922 – Maurice Francill “Radio Wizard” – Francis Cowgill (American)

SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS: MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1929. "Radio Wizard" to Appear Here Under Auspices of Express-News Operates 4 Cars by Wireless at Once In operating by wireless control four standard, stock model automobiles at the same time, Maurice T. Francill, world-renowned engineer and inventor, performs one of the most difficult experiments in all the …

1898 – Telautomaton – Nikola Tesla (Serbian/American)

Tesla – The Electric Mind 2-2 Model Model Patent number: 613809 (see full patent here) Filing date: Jul 1, 1898 Issue date: Nov 1898   In September 1898, Tesla demonstrates his radio-controlled torpedo boat at Madison Square Garden in Ney York City. (Popular Science July 1956). From Miessner's book "On the Early History of Radio Guidance", published in …