a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
MISS HONEYWELL Olympia, London. – Issue Date: 27/06/1968 At the Instruments, Electronics and Automatic Exhibition we see a futuristic 'robot girl' demonstrating various pieces of equipment by computer company Honeywell Controls Ltd. A man takes the headless robot body from a cupboard and puts a circuit disc into her back. Putting the body back in …
WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? NO. 14 Your browser does not support iframes. One of the funniest video clips I've ever seen (1m 42sec into preview). 1630.24 | WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? NO. 14 (1:47:33:00 – 1:50:25:00) 05/07/1934 French fake Titles read: "Would you believe it? Queer things the World over. No. 14." At unidentified location …
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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 Canberra Times < Saturday 23 July 1932 p5 ROBOT AS SUPER-SALESMAN Robot, the super orator and salesman, who never stutters or forgets, and whose tongue never makes a disastrous slip, is the new mechanical talking man invented by Mr. William Hutter, chief engineer of the wireless company of Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. He …
Source: Popular Science Feb, 1931. 'Popjie' being blindfolded prior to "Radiana" driving the car in Rochdale . l The wording attributes "Radiana" to Popjie, however the person in the images below and in video clip below appears to show a different performer. Is it the same person? VIDEO CLIP Gaumont Pathe Archives have a 1927 video of …
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