a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
I have not been able to locate an image of Rowe's Steam Man, or should I say Steam Men as he made at least two of them. There is a possibility that Rowe's second Steam Man was re-incarnated as Prof. Moore's Steam Man in 1891. More on that in a later post. At one time I had articles included …
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Zadoc P. Dederick's Steam Man appears to be the first of the Steam Men. The Steam Man from Newark was so inspirational it generated many more Walking Machines, steam or otherwise, and also fictional stories, now seen as some of the earliest Science or Speculative Fiction (SF) written. US Patent number: 75874 Issue date: …
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The 1849 Russian Steam man entry is more a place marker in case further information comes to light that this steam man actually went through a walking motion, rather than a statue on some sort of steam carriage. Scientific American. / Volume 5, Issue 14 1849 Page 108 A Steam Man. A mechanic in …