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OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE IMAGE WAS CHECKED.
Directly inspected title-page occurrence in a photographed 1923 English edition. This object verifies “Robots” in the title of this edition; it is not claimed as the first English use and does not verify unpictured pages of the play.
Present-Day English1923established
robot
The photographed English title page prints the plural headword in “Rossum's Universal Robots.”
“R.U.R. (ROSSUM'S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS)”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Printed book
- YEAR
- 1923
- LOCATOR
- Title-page spread, title line “R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)”
- REPOSITORY
- Bibliothèque nationale de France — BnF Essentiels image record
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Image record 77285f7f-de94-4bb0-94f4-0d3b95405373
- FACSIMILE
- Linked below
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- Yes
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERrobot ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 113 ↗
INSPECTED FACSIMILEOPEN OBJECT ↗
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REPEATABLE VISUAL REVIEW
THE INSPECTION LEDGER
OBSERVED FORMROBOTS
“R.U.R. (ROSSUM'S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS)”
- INSPECTION DATE
- 2026-08-26
- METHOD
- visual facsimile
- INSPECTOR ROLE
- SET-U editorial review
- EXACT LOCATOR
- 1923 English edition, photographed title-page spread, right-page title line
- CLAIM LIMIT
- Verifies the printed plural ROBOTS in the title of this photographed edition. It does not establish the first English use or any unpictured passage.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama
- AUTHOR
- Karel Čapek; translated by Paul Selver
- YEAR
- 1923
- PUBLISHER
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- SOURCE TYPE
- digitized primary source
- CITATION KEY
- bnf-rur-english-1923