a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
The above model from one of my favourite automata artists, Kandamu. For those of you expecting a simple, easy post for Prof. George Moore's "Steam Man", well, it isn't going to be one. The press "announcement" date for the Steam Man is 1893, but Prof. G. Moore had spent two years setting it up [see article …
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“Electric Man” – George R. Moore, a then seventy-year-old retired miller of LowelL Mass., USA. [Note: The author believes that George R. Moore of Lowell, Mass., is not the same person as Professor George Moore, the Canadian “inventor” of the more well known “Steam Man”.] Walking Automaton – Patent # 454,570 granted June 23, 1891 …
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Other than this one article, I have nothing else on this Walking Wagon. Fort Wayne Sentinel 14 Sept 1887 p1 A WALKING WAGON This Ingenious Contrivance Exhibited to the People of Fort Wayne. A young man named Browns [Brossins?], from Abolt station, has a novel contrivance on exhibition in this city. It is a "walking …
Being an Australian myself, I got very excited when I found out about this Steam Man from Australia. Despite many hours in the State Library of Victoria, I have not been able to find any photos of him. However, as it was on show for major exhibitions, there was plenty of coverage in the local press. …
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Other than a brief one-line sentance in "The Morning Oregonian 04 May 1872 p4, I have not found any futher infromation on this contrivance. "An inventive Kalamazoologist has succeeded in bringing out an eight-legged steam walking machine."