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Title: What's the Story? #445 - J. C. Harris' Voice Command Car
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 03, 2013, 05:43:26 AM

For one point: Who was that guy, and what was he doing?

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Title: Re: What's the Story? #445
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 06, 2013, 06:20:23 AM

Up

Title: Re: What's the Story? #445
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 13, 2013, 04:52:46 AM

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Title: Re: What's the Story? #445
Post by: Craig Gillingham on April 14, 2013, 04:07:17 AM

The man is JC Harris, who was the manager for the Gibson company in Indianapolis. What he is doing, oddly, is starting the car with a voice activated control. He says "Start" and the car starts, via relays and telephone transmitters. The photo was said to have been taken in 1917, although the car is an earlier 1915 or 16 Overland.

Title: Re: What's the Story? #445
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 14, 2013, 04:34:21 AM

That's it!