Tag: 1949

  Eugene Wendling's original robot from 1930 was called "Televox" (not to be confused with Wensley's "Televox" from America).  "Mekko" is probably either a rebuild or an upgrade of his earlier "Televox". Amsterdam, 1958. A recently discovered magazine article from 1936 shows the metallic "Mekko" from above but called "Televox"! You can see Wendling directing the flashlight to the …

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Wiener's/Wiesner's/Singleton's 'Moth' – why so many names attached? (extract from below) Wiener wanted the theories put to a practical test. In the late 1940s he teamed up with Dr. J. Wiesner, then in the Research Laboratory of Electronics, and later to become the president of MIT, to build a demonstration-machine with two feedbacks that would …

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