1956 – Mechanical Animal – William Robert “Bert” Sutherland / Ivan E. Sutherland – (American)

 This copy of a letter from 1957 describes the first "Mechanical Animal" built by the Sutherland brothers, Bert and Ivan.     Here’s a transcript of the letter sent from Ivan E. Sutherland to Grey Walter in 1957: Nov 10. [IES  to WGW] “Dear Sir: Early last month I had sent to you two copies of …

1953 – Timothy Turtle – Jack Kubanoff (American)

1953 – Timothy Turtle by  Jack H. Kubanoff, Radio and Television News, April 1953 The text to the article is below. For the moment, the pages themselves can be found here. The article itself has a good description of its functionality.  Some of its functionality reminds me of Berkeley's Squee i.e. flashing lamps controlling the …