Thirteen-year-old Michael Cook, an eighth-grader at
Eastwood Junior High School in Washington Township (now Eastwood
Middle School), showed off his robot, "Elmo," during the Central
Indiana Science Fair at Butler University's College of Pharmacy on
April 11, 1958. Michael spent two months building Elmo out of $25
worth of wire, switches, stovepipe, old TV tubes, cardboard and
anything else he could get his hands on. Cook still lives in
Central Indiana and works as a claims adjuster for Safeco Claims in
Indianapolis. He is married, with two children and three
grandchildren. Cook says Elmo was more of a "stage robot" than
anything scientific. He didn't win a prize from the science fair,
but he did win a crowd appreciation award. (Bob Doeppers / The News)
Republished: March 12, 2005
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