Steel Giant – cyberneticzoo.com http://cyberneticzoo.com a history of cybernetic animals and early robots Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:33:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 1916 – “King Grey” the Electric Titan – Fern Pieper (American) http://cyberneticzoo.com/robots/1916-king-grey-electric-titan-robot-vern-pieper/ Thu, 23 Jan 2014 03:55:07 +0000 http://cyberneticzoo.com/?p=8767 I first saw this mentioned in David M. Earle's interesting book titled "Re-Covering Modernism: Pulps, Paperbacks, and the Prejudice of Form", but John Ptak's recent post reminded me of it. I have used his image of the prototype walking machine. The model of King Grey, the Electric Titan.  Although called "Electric", the motive power is […]

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]]> 1880 – “The Steam House” Steel Giant – Jules Verne (French) http://cyberneticzoo.com/walking-machines/1880-the-steam-house-steel-giant-jules-verne-french/ Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:43:16 +0000 http://cyberneticzoo.com/?p=4815 Illustration by Léon Benett. From Wiki The Steam House (French: La maison à vapeur) is a Jules Verne novel recounting the travels of a group of British colonists in the Raj in a wheeled house pulled by a steam-powered mechanical elephant. Jules Verne uses the mechanical house as a plot device to have the reader […]

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