a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
1902-7 – "Iron Man" Diving Apparatus by Capt. Enos B. Petrie and Joseph E. Martin. It is diver O. E. Gaudy (Gandy?) inside the suit who set the new diving record at the time. Source: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Aug 23, 1907. Petrie's diving armor is similar to Macduffee's Armor of 1910. Publication number US711342 …
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The 1931 version of Harry L. Bowdoin's Submarine Armor. When inside his suit Mr. Bowdoin through the manipulation of gears and levers, can move his arms, legs and body freely to almost any angle and with clawed hands, so constructed as to record sensitivity, he can pick up even very small objects. 1928 – Submarine …
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1910 – Submarine Armor by Chester E. Macduffee. In Popular Mechanics Magazine, November 1914 it was reported that the new armored diving suit went down to a depth of 212 ft. in Long Island Sound, establishing a new American record for deep-sea diving. Above images: Scientific American, 22 August, 1914. The left hand is an …
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1905 – Diving Dress – M. de Pluvy. L'EXPRESS DU MIDI 14 April 1905, a French newspaper, mentions M. De Pluvy's diving dress, hence giving it an earlier date of 1905 rather than Scientific American's 1906 date. The Helmet was subject to a French patent, No. 361910 filed in 1905. Source: Scientific American December 1906 …
In 1906 the Swedish weekly Hvar 8 Dag published this photograph of an interesting diving apparatus, designed by the Italian inventor Giuseppe Restucci. This is how the weekly described the apparatus: "The arms are artificial, and are operated from the inside by the diver. There is an electric lantern on the helmet.Very heavy objects can be …
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