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"At the 1939 World's Fair a machine called a Voder was shown. A girl stroked its keys and it emitted recognsable speech. No human vocal cords entered into the procedure at any point; the keys simply combined some electronically produced vibrations and passed these on to a loud-speaker."

("As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, 1945.)