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Mechanical Elephants in America
Here's a fascinating history of Frank Stuart's Mechanical Elephants, a line of life-sized, rideable elephant automata that were sold to department stores and amusement parks in America in the 1950s. "Cybernetic animal and early robot" historian Reuben Hoggett has collected early print mentions of the Stuart elephants and traced their destiny through the rest of [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/1ExdMAS2SLM/mechanical-elephants-in-americ.html
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