a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
The Electric Vampire By F. H. Power Illustrated by Philip Baynes (This short story appeared in The London Magazine of October 1910 with the accompanying Editor's note: 'The following short story, though of course but a figment of the imagination, is yet founded on fact. Over seventy years ago (in 1836, to be precise), a …
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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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Above image Source: circusmuseum.nl Popular Electricity and the World's Advance – Volume 4 – Page 226 by Henry Walter Young – 1911 . This entrancing point was recently reached at Hamburg, where a vaudeville theater billed as its special attraction : "Moto Phoso-Man or Automaton ?" When the curtain rose for this turn it disclosed a figure …
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TIN MAN AS WALKING ADVERTISEMENT – Popular Science Nov 1910. A hardware dealer in Clintonville, Wis., recently built a giant tin man of materials on sale in his store, hired a man to walk the streets inside of it, and as a result drew much attention to his wares. The giant of tin was 8 ft. …