a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
1930 – Submarine Salvage Robot by Harry L. Bowdoin Artists depiction of Salvage tank. Really a cross between Bowdoin's Armoured Suit and the Diving Bell. Source: The Ogden Standard Examiner, Feb 21, 1932. Another artists depiction of the diving apparatus. Source: Modern Mechanics and Invention, Sept 1931. Large Robot Diving Bell to Explore for …
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"Orient Express" is one of my favourites, showing Luggage with arms and legs! Robot with attitude! Harry Grant Dart (1869 – 1938) Unlike many illustrators who graduated from newspaper art departments to the more lucrative magazine markets, Harry Dart continued to work in both fields. Beginning with the Boston Herald, he was sent to Cuba …
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New York Times 25 Aug 1910 LIKE AN IRON MAN ————– Legs Take It to Work on Land or Sea, Carrying Tons at a Load. ————— INVENTION HAS BEEN TRIED ————– One of Its Uses is to Give Landing Stages, Doing Away with Necessity of Building Piers. ————– Charles Guest Norris, a prominent English engineer, …
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1909 – Occultus -also Barbarossa [redbeard] Very little is known other than a weird photo and article on an automaton / robot named "Occultus" recently exhibited in Berlin by a man named Whitman. Its quite probable that Occultus can't perform all the functions he's purported to do, but possibly some of them, so I haven't yet …