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t3knomanser

Elektro

Dec 26, 2008 20:35

At the 1939 World's Fair, Westinghouse displayed a walking, talking, humanoid robot named "Elektro".

Given the rather obvious technical limitations they were up against, the engineers did an amazing job with it. Remember, this was well before the transistor- the computer system that powered it was made from mechanical relays. It could do primitive ( Read more... )

paleofuturism, robots, fun, mad science, caution: dangerous when awesome

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indigoboi76 December 27 2008, 04:34:28 UTC

just a thought the 1939 worlds fair was also the unveiling of another technological marvel, Philo T. Farnsworth and David Sarnoff convinced the President of the United States to appear on the first broadcast of Television. dont know if this helps your research as well but that TV is on display at the home of FDR in Hyde Park NY...