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Update: 4 July 2010: A more recent discovery has it that, in fact, Thomas J. Winans was the inventor of the Steam Man, actually called "Steam King". Eno and a Newspaper were third share investors, and later custodians of the steam wagon. See article text below giving full description of…
Edward Payson Weston was one of Americas earliest and famous 'pedestrians', walking all over the country for most of his life. A Walking Automaton was built in his likeness by a currently unknown inventor. The Evening World 14 Jan 1893 p5 Huber's 14th Street Museum. The walking automaton. Walks like a living man. …
I'm afraid I don't have too much info on this one, but here it is anyway..... New Castle News 01 Aug 1894 p7 Result of a Vision. An old gentleman named Gross of Beaver, who travels over the country sharpening saws was in town Tuesday and told of a wonderful…
The Louis Philip Perew "Electric Man", due to an often referenced article by "The Strand Magazine", is dated as 1900. Further, due to a popular site that mis-represents early walking machines and steam men, it is also referred to as "Automatic Man". I elect to present the full story as…
The above model from one of my favourite automata artists, Kandamu. For those of you expecting a simple, easy post for Prof. George Moore's "Steam Man", well, it isn't going to be one. The press "announcement" date for the Steam Man is 1893, but Prof. G. Moore had spent two years…
“Electric Man” - George R. Moore, a then seventy-year-old retired miller of LowelL Mass., USA. [Note: The author believes that George R. Moore of Lowell, Mass., is not the same person as Professor George Moore, the Canadian "inventor" of the more well known “Steam Man”.] Walking Automaton – Patent #…
Other than this one article, I have nothing else on this Walking Wagon. Fort Wayne Sentinel 14 Sept 1887 p1 A WALKING WAGON This Ingenious Contrivance Exhibited to the People of Fort Wayne. A young man named Browns [Brossins?], from Abolt station, has a novel contrivance on exhibition in this…
Being an Australian myself, I got very excited when I found out about this Steam Man from Australia. Despite many hours in the State Library of Victoria, I have not been able to find any photos of him. However, as it was on show for major exhibitions, there was plenty of…
Other than a brief one-line sentance in "The Morning Oregonian 04 May 1872 p4, I have not found any futher infromation on this contrivance. "An inventive Kalamazoologist has succeeded in bringing out an eight-legged steam walking machine."
In June of this year (2009), I went to the UK and to Europe to visit some of the great computer pioneers and in particular, to talk to them about their early cybernetic models they built. I travelled with David Buckley (see his site here), and one of our stops…