1911 – Toy Beetle – Adolph Weigel – referenced by A.J. Lotka

When one reads through documents and histories on cybernetic and cybernetic models, one of the earliest models refered to is the Toy Beetle. The key reference is A. J. LOTKA. Elements of Physical Biology. Baltimore, 1925. Normally you see it in simple diagrammatic form, but after many hours on patent search engines (pre Google patents …