a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
Source: The Advertiser (South Australia) 11 Oct 1931. Mar 12 1938 The Market Traders Review The Market Traders Review – The Official Organ of The National Market Traders' Federation. Supplement to The World's Fair, Saturday March 12th 1938 17'x12', 12 pages of fascinating countrywide local articles with lots of names and places mentioned …
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The above image from Popular Science April, 1933. The Harford Courant Mar 6, 1933 p16 Italian Designs Mechanical Horse From Steel Tubing —- Device Looks Like Grasshopper Stepping Along Road Spezia, Italy—(AP.)—A mechanical horse, designed to substitute for the farm animal or even light tractor, has been invented by an engineer here, Signor D. G. …
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The Thomas Ross Maze Learning Machine showing its feeler tracking the slots of this comb-shaped maze. See complete Scientific American 1933 article titled "Machines That Think" – pdf here.
Popular Mechanics May 1949 WILLIE the ROBOT WILLIE is a dapper little citizen of Hammond. Ind., with a leer in his eye and a stomach chock full of wires and gears. He's a robot, the mechanical child of Andy Bober. If you ever meet Willie, there's any number of things he may do. He introduces …
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Portsmouth Times 21 Feb 1933 p8 TECHNOCRATIC MAN OF 1940?—This conception of the machine age product by youthful Earl Kent, 21, of Carthage, Miss., "walks, talks, smokes cigarettes and spits fire". Kent, the inventor, is pictured with it in Los Angeles. Betty Davis, young saleswoman who "made a sale" to the robot is telling him …