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Catalog, 100. NOVEEDY, COMPANY Chicago, I). 7 PROPOSED TRIP TO VENUS Editor, Amazino Stories: . J am_enclosing an article from the “Atlantic City Union,” No doubt you will find this article interesting, ‘ am only 14 years of age but I find your maga- zine most interesting, Daniel Fischman, 26%) Maryland Ave., Atlantic City, N. PLANS FLIGHT TO THE MOON Machine Capable of 2400 Miles a Minute, Needed for Fantastic “Hop” Miami, Fla., Dee. 16 (U.P.)—The most fantastic project ever devised, a flight to the planet Venus, millions of miles away, was announced ‘today, The man who proposed to make Jules Verne’s trip to the moon look like child’s play is Robert Condit, of Condit, Ohio, an obscure chemist and enginecr, With intense earnestness, he insisted at the workshop where he is assembling his invention that the trip is feasible. “The motive power for the machine,” he said, “‘to be used through the earth's atmosphere for the first 30 or 40 miles will be principally from a slow areas de- rived from the most powerful alkali known —peroxide of sodium—used as a direct propeller, “After Jeaving the earth’s atmosphere the propelling power will be a network of units capable of being polarized with the attraction of other rates and orbits of meteor streams other than the earth's. The necessary maximum speed for such a flight would be 2400 miles a minute. Condit, wbout 35 and-an. ex-service man, arrived here a week ago and began the construction of a building resembling an airplane hangar at the surf’s edge Next he built about it a board fence six feet Dee e refused to discuss more secret-details of his experiment, although he apparently has adequate financial backing. He will not be ready for his attempt before Jan. 24._ (The cutting must speak for itaclf and we give it to show that the impossible stories of inter- ylanetary travel which we publish, are to be ound duplicated sometimes in the news of the day, but Mr. Condit ig either a very imaginative person—or perhaps unimaginative, He hardly will go to the moon. We use the term duplicated —Mr, Condit will not duplicate ovr stories of interplanetary or of “intersatellite’ travel. Appreciation from our younger readers is al- ways welcome. Their criticism is sincere and often acute.—EDITOR.] A “STAUNCH SUPPORTER” OF AMAZING STORIES Editor, AMAZING Stories: 2 The reason J am writing is to bring to your notice the enclosed cutting describing a mechanical man which follows the orders of a- human voice, remember reading about a mechanical body for na man in ‘The Man With the Queer Head,” a story where the author seems to totich upon imagina- tive things. Tere is a mechanical man that goes him one better, It is a cutting from a New York daily. Another example of your motto “Extrava- gant Fiction Today—Cold Fact Tomorrow.” I enjoy all the stories printed in your magazine. I would like to have some more “Mad Planet” stories and the sequel to “The Face in the Abyss.” I am for a semi-annual with complete stories, Also for semi-monthly publication with more illustrations, such as you had in the ‘‘Master Mind of Mars.’ hope this cutting ig something you haven't heard of before. I am a_ staunch supporter of AMAZING STORIES. Fred D. Scott, 647 Academy Street, New York, N. Y. MECHANICAL MAN FOLLOWS ORDERS OF HUMAN VOICE The mechanical man, a machine which re- sponds in action to the human voice, has been perfected and put into operation by engineers of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, it was announced last night. The so-called electric men when adilressed in the proper toncs will reply by means of sound waves within the human voice register, giving correct information and carrying out various orders, At a demonstration given yesterday at the offices of the Westinghouse Company, 150 Broadway, ot the: first syllable transmitted to one of these electric workers, o series of lights were lit. At the second syllable, the automaton started an electric fan. A searchlight was turned on by a third syllable. At a fourth it operated an automatic sweeper, A fifth syllable was pronounced and the mechanical man started a signal Jamp, The automiton responds only to sound, It must be ordered in just the precise tone. It works with amazing speed. (The “Mechanical Man,” as the imaginative re- porter terms it, responds to sounds of exactly accu: tate pitch, It is set to do this and the sounds are produced mechanically and electrically. It does not respond to the mere voice—the human organs cannot give the requisite notes, “It is very fully described <= ees a”, os ee 13 the January issue of Science and In- _ vention—EDITO ’ z at eee 5A ne = ro — Hinton | First Pilot to Fly Atlantic totranYOU IKUTENANT WALTER HINTON— pilot of the famous ‘Transatlantic NC+4 flight—is ready to train you at home for a future in the greatest industry of the age. 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