a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
Edward Payson Weston was one of Americas earliest and famous 'pedestrians', walking all over the country for most of his life. A Walking Automaton was built in his likeness by a currently unknown inventor. The Evening World 14 Jan 1893 p5 Huber's 14th Street Museum. The walking automaton. Walks like a living man. The Trenton Times 15 Oct …
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I’m afraid I don’t have too much info on this one, but here it is anyway….. New Castle News 01 Aug 1894 p7 Result of a Vision. An old gentleman named Gross of Beaver, who travels over the country sharpening saws was in town Tuesday and told of a wonderful invention he has perfected. It …
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 …