We can only wonder why the editors left out the most interesting feature of Professor Harry May's robot from this story's head -- that is, in addition to obeying simple orders, like "stand up," the robot could also fire blank cartridges from a pistol. According to the machine's creator, it also had an affinity for playing "strange pranks" on people. The magazine reported: "Once it mauled an assistant and on another occasion it shot unexpectedly at its creator, as if endowed with the malevolence of a mechanical monster of fiction." Read the full story in "Mechanical Man Hears and Speaks"