These next set of pictures show the new single-coil relays which were also used in the batch of 6 for the Festival of Britain in 1951. You will also notice the oil-filled capacitor has gone, and in one picture another capacitor is in place. This is most likely the capacitor…
ELSIE showing detail of enlargened hole for pinion end of motor sharf, now unsupported.
ELSIE - improved version [note new relay and capacitor]
ELSIE from Time-Life 1950
ELSIE (Electro-mechanical robot, Light Sensitive with Internal and External stability ). The press at the time reported the arrival of ELSIE in late 1949, eg Daily Mail, 17 November 1949; and Daily Express, 13 December 1949. But a memo exists from Edison Swan to Grey dated 10 Mar 1948 suggests that the female tortoise [ELSIE] was also…
ELMER - (ELectro-MEchanical Robot) How the media reported the coming of ELMER : Lethbridge Herald - Wednesday , February 25, 1948 Robot Tortoise Likes Women - Recognizes Voices, Comes To Meet When Called-Can be Sulky LONDON. Feb. 25 Daily Express reported today that Dr. W. Grey Walter. 38-year-old brain scientist has built…
ELSIE from Time-Life 1950
ELSIE (photographed 1950)
ELSIE still image from BBC newsreel clip.
ELSIE - annotated image from Life magazine May 15, 1950
1948 Memo from Edison Swan requesting the 'tortoise female'
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…
U.S. Patent Serial No. 1,017,066 Filed 1911