"MM7" on the left, Claus Scholz in the middle and "MM8" on the right. Scholz made MM7 between 1957-8 and finished with MM9 in 1973, so I believe. The MM7 Selektor human machine is the development for which the international scientist Scholz-Nauendorff, nicknamed the "Viennese father of robots", is best known.…
R.O.S.A. B.O.S.O.M. Radio Operated Simulated Actress - Battery Or Standby Operated Mains (sometimes seen written as ROSA. BOSOM, or Rosa Bosom, or Rosabosom.) Image courtesy Bruce Lacey. Image courtesy Bruce Lacey. Image courtesy Bruce Lacey. Her finest moment was to win The Andrew Logan's Alternative Miss World competition in 1985.…
Above and below: "Robert" as he is today. These images are from the Scienceworks Science Museum's webpage (Photographed by Benjamin Healley). Reproduced courtesy of Museum Victoria. This pdf gives some information as well. Robbie the Robot can currently be viewed as part of the Scienceworks collection store tour – just ask your…
The first version of "George' the robot built when Tony Sale was seventeen years old in 1949. Compare with image below shows that this negative/print masked out the brand of vacuum cleaner. The later version of "George" displayed bigger feet, broader shoulders, and with ears! I contacted Tony Sale in 2009…
A Penny Popular item from 1916 , this fictional story about the adventures of tthree comrades Jack, Sam, and Pete. Pete has a Steam Man. He appears with his own axe in both cover illustrations. Maybe he chops his own firewood?
Galveston Daily News 13 Dec 1896 (pdf here) In the Deep of Time by George Parsons Lathrop in collaboration with Thomas A. Edison For The News-Copyrighted. This story is the result of conversations with Thomas A. Edison. the substance of which he afterwards put into the form of notes written…
La Porte City Review 16 Nov 1882 p2 (see pdf here) Fiction originally from Harper's Magazine How Aluminium Won The Grand Prix by William B. Greene "'This is my creation," continued Joe, stroking the animal's mane. "It is I who have breathed life into his nostrils." "Is he mad?" I…