Tag: American

I found a single reference to a French Electric Dog that "will jump out of its kennel when a whistle sounds". The rest of the brief article talks about Miessner's "Electric Dog". Ingenious Mechanism – Le Grand Reporter, 30 Dec 1921 p2  The electric dog which will follow a lantern in the dark—a mechanical curio constructed by …

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Strickly speaking, the 1900 Electric Man is a pseudo-walking machine only, so I will include him in the Early Walking Machine category, not here. A further note of clarity. This entry is here as there was an article published in 1900 by "The Strand" illustrated magazine titled "The Electric Man". This has been hijacked and misrepresented somewhat as "The …

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