PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 70
COMPLETE ROUTE ↗1922 first-use horizon; inspected 1923 edition
English-language R.U.R. translation and print
robot DOSSIER ↗Merriam-Webster reports English robot in 1922 through translation of R.U.R. A separately preserved 1923 English edition was directly inspected: its photographed title page prints “Rossum’s Universal Robots,” but SET-U does not mislabel that object as the first English use.
- COORDINATES STORED
- YES
- HONEST TO PLOT
- YES
- PLACEMENT MODE
- regional
- TIME PRECISION
- range
- NUMERIC TIME BOUND
- YES
- CLAIM CITATIONS
- 2
THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.
The 1922–1923 interval joins two distinct cited claims: the lexicographic 1922 first-use horizon and the directly inspected 1923 title-page object. It is not a claim that the borrowing process lasted exactly two years.
PLACE IN GLOBAL CHRONOLOGY ↗AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.
Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.
- supports
Robot — Word History
Reports that robot entered English through translation of R.U.R. and gives 1922 as the first-known-use horizon.
Word History: English translation and First Known UseAUDIT SOURCE ↗ - supports
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama
The photographed English title page prints “R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots).” This directly inspected object verifies the plural word in that edition, not the first English use.
Directly inspected 1923 title-page spreadAUDIT SOURCE ↗