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LONDON - ALL SET FOR SANTA aka CHRISTMAS TOY FAIR Meccano promotional robot at the1965 Christmas Toy Fair, London. The robot's head turns, ears spin, eye lights flash, mouth opens and closes, chest lights flash, each arm can move up and down and the head's antenna rotates. It appears that one…
Thanks to Antonio Gual of Barcelona, Spain who notified me of his father's old robot. The text is also by Antonio. 1953 El robot del meu pare / Dad's robot Als anys 50, el meu pare, l' Antoni Gual Segura i els seus companys de Radio Vilafranca del Penedès van…
During some earlier research on Walking Machines, discovered an article in The Salt Lake Tribune. (Salt Lake City, Utah), March 09, 1913 headlined "The Giant Mechanical Mosquitoes Of Dr. Gustav Luchy." Now that it's come time to write it up, I see that Lyle Zapato's in his blog ZPi has already done…
Metal feet on Swedish carriage enables it to "walk" up or down stairs. The rocking rhythm on flat surface puts baby to sleep. Source: Mechanics Illustrated May 1957.
Stair-climbing wheels Wheels that shoot out spring-loaded "legs" enable an experimental British vehicle to climb stairs and other obstacles. The vehicle, powered by batteries, is the "miniclimber," developed by Prof. Meredith Thring and Brian Shayer at Queen Mary College, London University. The small machine travels at about three mph. On…
Patent number: 880526 - see full patent details here. Filing date: Jun 27, 1907 Issue date: Mar 3, 1908 A very ingenious walking wheel mechanism was invented by the British inventor H. S. Hele-Shaw. He was inspired by another British invention, Diplock's Pedrail and heavily promoted the Pedrail before inventing…
See full patent details here. Patent number: 658004 Filing date: Feb 7, 1900 Issue date: Sep 18, 1900 Further patent improvements include US747387, US787500, and US979447. Source: Popular Science September 1933 Some images located here. The Pedrail wheel Text from Wikipedia. A pedrail wheel climbing stairs, February 7, 1904 The New York…
WHEEL FOR ROAD-ENGINES by RESCUE B. PAGE Patent number: 442780 Filing date: May 29, 1890 Issue date: Dec 16, 1890 See full patent here. Fresno Morning Republican 18 Oct 1889 p3 R. B. Page's Legs They Will Carry the Heaviest Load With Ease STEAM WILL URGE THEM ON A Fresno Man's Invention…
The Incredible No-Torque "Walking" Machine It can turn on its axis, "walk" sideways, and tackle the roughest terrain and unbelievable gradients by DAVID SCOTT /PS European Editor The zaniest ride I've ever had was at the wheel of this weird walking-wheel vehicle on a grassy hillside in a Prague suburb.…
The 6 models one can construct with this set. Source: Profi Instruction pdf here. Box cover. Source: Fischertechnik Online Museum here. The gait pattern for each of the models. (Google translation from German) The new computing box 'Bionic Robots' builds on the 1994 PROFI ' I'm walking' set . New…