a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
from Simpsons' Daily Leader-Times 12 Mar 1930 p9 With the increasing replacement of men by machins, the laborer in the future may look something like the grotesque figure shown in the above photo. This mechanical "robot" man attracted .considerable attention at the" British Industrial Fair held recently at Birmingham, England. The sign reads: "More output …
Built by Hungarian inventor Tarján Ferenc (Budapest, 1895.11.04.- Budapest, 1956.11.28.) (English = Frank or Francis Tarjan). The robot was shown at the Corvin department store in January 1929 in Budapest . Operated in a fully acoustically isolated, remote controlled chamber. This room is a miniature studio, which not only speech, but controlled some movement – see remote …
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A rare picture of " Telelux ". The "Telelux" Sound and light were transformed into mechanical action at the banquet of the National Tool Exposition recently to illustrate their possibilites in regulating traffic, aiding the aviator, and performing automatic functions. A beam of light was thrown into the "eyes" of a mechanical contrivance known as …
Rupert I – 1928 Rupert was built as a mechanical representation of major organs of a human. The Popular Science [Apr 1929] article suggests it was built by British schoolboys. Rupert II – 1929 (re-modelled innards) from Popular Science Apr 1929 p58 Boys Build "Human Engine" in Study of Anatomy USING two furnaces for the stomach. …
Whilst Roy James Wensley's "Televox" came about in 1927, he had invented and patented an earlier "supervisory control system" (patent filed in 1923). This system was effectively a system that could "remotely control" equipment via power lines, wireless, telephone lines, but not sound, which is how it is differentiated with the later "Televox". Some articles give this earlier "supervisory …