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 : Robot character from a play by Karel Capek


Robot character from a play by Karel Capek

One of the cast from Karel Capek's science fiction play of 1921, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)'. Capek was a Czech writer who made the word robot popular, though he credited its invention to his brother Josef

Picture No
13724950
Media ID
45410406
Size
3665px x 5189px (4.2MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Unnamed photographer in L'Illustrazione Italiana, 5 May 1929, page 709. Image digitally colourised
Date
1929

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