Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›All-around Housemaid. "Emle" a robot maid that acts as cook, masseur and dish washer, made its appearance at the annual radio and electrical show in Chicago Jan. 19, called the electro-mechanical labor eliminator, this current-directed and tireless worker will vibrate excess weight of its owner, press dresses, chops meat, ream fruit, barbeque meat and perform several other culinary duties. When the day's work is done, the apparatus folds up and retires under the kitchen sink. Peggy Bryon of Chicago is shown demonstrating "Emle's" weight reducing abilities.
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
All-around Housemaid. "Emle" a robot maid that acts as cook, masseur and dish washer, made its appearance at the annual radio and electrical show in Chicago Jan. 19, called the electro-mechanical labor eliminator, this current-directed and tireless worker will vibrate excess weight of its owner, press dresses, chops meat, ream fruit, barbeque meat and perform several other culinary duties. When the day's work is done, the apparatus folds up and retires under the kitchen sink. Peggy Bryon of Chicago is shown demonstrating "Emle's" weight reducing abilities.
Associated Press · [ca. January 1932]
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