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1920 – Electro-mechanical “protozoon” – Fritz Lux (German)

cyberne1 — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:47:35 +0000

Lux' protozoon * This device is a model of a unicellular animal: it consists of a short rubber cylinder with two slots (Fig. 98). According to the ideas of its inventor, it is anchored in a brook, half submerged in the water. The water in the "protozoon" is considered as the "food" it is in […]

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1898 – Telautomaton – Nikola Tesla (Serbian/American)

cyberne1 — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:18:57 +0000

Tesla – The Electric Mind 2-2 Model Model Patent number: 613809 (see full patent here) Filing date: Jul 1, 1898 Issue date: Nov 1898 In September 1898, Tesla demonstrates his radio-controlled torpedo boat at Madison Square Garden in Ney York City. (Popular Science July 1956). From Miessner's book "On the Early History of Radio Guidance", published in […]

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1912 – Seleno, the Electric Dog – Hammond / Miessner -Addendum

cyberne1 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:57:21 +0000

In my earlier post on the "Electric Dog" by Miessner and Hammond (here), I commented on some uncertainty regarding Miessner's and Hammond's relationship together, and as to whether or not there may have been another dog built. This was as a result of how the newspaper and magazine articles were reporting on the "electric dog". […]

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1941 – Sowbug – Tolman

cyberne1 — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:03:52 +0000

Place marker. E. C. Tolman, Discrimination vs. learning and the schematic sowbug, Psychol. Rev., 48, 1941, 367-382.

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1934 – Endomechanic Vehicle – François Dussaud (Swiss/French)

cyberne1 — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:01:24 +0000

François Dussaud is more famous for inventions around the phonograph and cinema. A Swiss inventor, born in Geneva (b. 1870 – d. 1953) later lived in France. His patents are filed under the name of Charles François Dussaud. Note: The article below is from the French magazine Sciences & Vie 1938. It quotes 1938 for […]

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1928 – Phil the Radio Dog a.k.a. “Philidog” – Henri Piraux (French)

cyberne1 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:14:28 +0000

This is what everyone’s been waiting for – new and more detailed information on “Philidog” by Henri Piraux (sometimes Henry Piraux, of Philips France). One of the articles to be presented tells us that the dog has gone through a bit of an evolution. Unfortunately I’ve been unable to get a date of the original incarnation. […]

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1915 – Electric Dog – Christian Berger – (Hungarian / American)

cyberne1 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:12:34 +0000

I found a single reference to a French Electric Dog that "will jump out of its kennel when a whistle sounds". The rest of the brief article talks about Miessner's "Electric Dog". Ingenious Mechanism – Le Grand Reporter, 30 Dec 1921 p2 The electric dog which will follow a lantern in the dark—a mechanical curio constructed by […]

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1916 – Wireless Dog – Steinbrook

cyberne1 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:23:31 +0000

Originally published in the Electrical Experimenter (issue unknown but probably late 1916). This version from the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette 24th Dec 1916 p12 It is probably more a ‘electric dog’ than a creature built to exhibit phototropic behaviour and the like. Although it has a selenium cell, it is for selector circuit activation purposes, not […]

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1912 – Seleno, the Electric Dog – Hammond / Miessner

cyberne1 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:19:53 +0000

A lot has already been published already about Seleno, try these links: http://www.davidbuckley.net/DB/HistoryMakers/HM-ElectricDog1912.htm and my Addendum. Here are some pics and excerpts showing different aspects of the "Electric Dog". Technical articles on the Electric Dog appeared in Scientific American Supplement No. 2267 p376-7 June 14, 1919 written by Benjamin Franklin Miessner, in the Electrical Experimenter, 1915, p. […]

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1911 – Toy Beetle – Adolph Weigel – referenced by A.J. Lotka

cyberne1 — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:06:15 +0000

When one reads through documents and histories on cybernetic and cybernetic models, one of the earliest models refered to is the Toy Beetle. The key reference is A. J. LOTKA. Elements of Physical Biology. Baltimore, 1925. Normally you see it in simple diagrammatic form, but after many hours on patent search engines (pre Google patents […]

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