{"id":359,"date":"2012-11-03T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/03\/radio-police-automaton\/"},"modified":"2012-11-03T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T17:41:00","slug":"radio-police-automaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/03\/radio-police-automaton\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Police Automaton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/dEDJjwvkAZE\/radio-police-automaton.html\">Radio Police Automaton<\/a>: <br \/>Here&#8217;s a miraculous Radio Police Automaton from the May, 1924 issue of Hugo Gernsback&#8217;s <em>Science and Invention<\/em>. It will be useful for dispersing mobs, and for war. Note the built-in tear-gas tank. Also the &#8220;loud-speaker used to shout orders to the mob.&#8221; Mr Gernsback notes, &#8220;They will be well-nigh irresistible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something decidedly pre-Ewok about this design and the bold claims of irresistibility.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/brucesterling\/8076568341\/\">Gernsback Radio Police Automaton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<i>via <a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.tumblr.com\/\">Wil Wheaton<\/a><\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=897d757accb486483bc071be0116a333&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=897d757accb486483bc071be0116a333&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/dEDJjwvkAZE\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Police Automaton: Here&#8217;s a miraculous Radio Police Automaton from the May, 1924 issue of Hugo Gernsback&#8217;s Science and Invention. It will be useful for dispersing mobs, and for war. Note the built-in tear-gas tank. Also the &#8220;loud-speaker used to shout orders to the mob.&#8221; Mr Gernsback notes, &#8220;They will be well-nigh irresistible.&#8221; There&#8217;s something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-5N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}