a history of cybernetic animals and early robots
VIDEO: SCHOOLBOYS EXHIBITION Your browser does not support iframes. A pdf containing the 1955 and the 1965 versions is available here. The larger version is descibed in the December 1965 issue of Radio Control Models and Electronics, but in Radio-controlled form. It was built much earlier. Here's the introduction to that 1965 issue: Meet The …
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Patent number: 209468 Filing date: Jul 26, 1878 Issue date: Oct 29, 1878 see pdf here. Although a patent for a toy, the walking mechanism is what's important here. On the whole, I have found that toys, particularly those that actually made it into production, show proof of concept in most cases, and that future …
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Patent number: 200266 Filing date: Aug 4, 1877 Issue date: Feb 12, 1878 see full patent here. The Independent 01 Mar 1927 p5 A man by the name of Doyle, … invented a power horse that was little short of a marvel of ingenuity and that imitated the movemenents of a real horse almost perfect|y. …
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Indianapolis Star 12 Feb AUTOMOBILE WITH LEGS INSTEAD OF WHEELS INVENTED WASHINGTON. Feb. 11.- Invention of an automobile equipped with four legs instead of wheels is claimed by James William Bryan, a Washington man. who says he has forty patents, some of them basic, for such a machine. He has designed a five-passenger clutchless, gearless, …
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