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MzU3NTY0Mw.jpeg|W. Grey Walter's cybernetic tortoise. Image from [https://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10545770&itemw=4&itemf=0001&itemstep=1&itemx=1 Science and Society Picture Library/Getty images]
MzU3NTY0Mw.jpeg|<p class="caption>W. Grey Walter's cybernetic tortoise. Image from [https://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10545770&itemw=4&itemf=0001&itemstep=1&itemx=1 Science and Society Picture Library/Getty images]</p>
MzU3NjcxMQ.jpeg|In this time-lapse photo from 1950, Walter has a smoke while one of his cybernetic tortoises roams about the living room. Image from [https://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/nieuwsfoto's/time-lapse-photo-of-american-neurophysiologist-and-nieuwsfotos/88452911 Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images]
MzU3NjcxMQ.jpeg|In this time-lapse photo from 1950, Walter has a smoke while one of his cybernetic tortoises roams about the living room. Image from [https://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/nieuwsfoto's/time-lapse-photo-of-american-neurophysiologist-and-nieuwsfotos/88452911 Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images]
Gettyimages-88452850-2048x2048.jpg|View of a so-called 'turtle' robot, designed by neurophysiologist and robotician Dr. William Grey Walter, named Elsie as it seeks bright lights with its sensors, April 1950. The sign reads 'Machina Speculatrix (Testudo); Elmer; Elsie (Habitat - W. England); Please Do Not Feed These Machines.' Image from [https://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/nieuwsfoto's/view-of-a-so-called-turtle-robot-designed-by-nieuwsfotos/88452850 Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images]
Gettyimages-88452850-2048x2048.jpg|View of a so-called 'turtle' robot, designed by neurophysiologist and robotician Dr. William Grey Walter, named Elsie as it seeks bright lights with its sensors, April 1950. The sign reads 'Machina Speculatrix (Testudo); Elmer; Elsie (Habitat - W. England); Please Do Not Feed These Machines.' Image from [https://www.gettyimages.nl/detail/nieuwsfoto's/view-of-a-so-called-turtle-robot-designed-by-nieuwsfotos/88452850 Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images]

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The machines

THE GOVERNOR

Links

Images

  • Drawing of a centrifugal "fly-ball" governor. The balls swing out as speed increases, which closes the valve, until a balance is achieved between demand and the proportional gain of the linkage and valve

    Drawing of a centrifugal "fly-ball" governor. The balls swing out as speed increases, which closes the valve, until a balance is achieved between demand and the proportional gain of the linkage and valve

  • Cut-away drawing of steam engine speed governor. The valve starts fully open at zero speed, but as the balls rotate and rise, the central valve stem is forced downward and closes the valve. The drive shaft whose speed is being sensed is top right

    Cut-away drawing of steam engine speed governor. The valve starts fully open at zero speed, but as the balls rotate and rise, the central valve stem is forced downward and closes the valve. The drive shaft whose speed is being sensed is top right

  • Porter governor on a Corliss steam engine

    Porter governor on a Corliss steam engine

  • Boulton & Watt engine of 1788

    Boulton & Watt engine of 1788

M. SPECULARIX (The Cybernetic Tortoise)

Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLULRlmXkKo

A news reel in which Grey Walter demonstrates the Cybernetic Tortoise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZJfsD3Ksu4

Recent demonstration with excellent description of how the Cybernetic Tortoise works

Images

  • W. Grey Walter's cybernetic tortoise. Image from Science and Society Picture Library/Getty images

    W. Grey Walter's cybernetic tortoise. Image from Science and Society Picture Library/Getty images

  • In this time-lapse photo from 1950, Walter has a smoke while one of his cybernetic tortoises roams about the living room. Image from Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

    In this time-lapse photo from 1950, Walter has a smoke while one of his cybernetic tortoises roams about the living room. Image from Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

  • View of a so-called 'turtle' robot, designed by neurophysiologist and robotician Dr. William Grey Walter, named Elsie as it seeks bright lights with its sensors, April 1950. The sign reads 'Machina Speculatrix (Testudo); Elmer; Elsie (Habitat - W. England); Please Do Not Feed These Machines.' Image from Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

    View of a so-called 'turtle' robot, designed by neurophysiologist and robotician Dr. William Grey Walter, named Elsie as it seeks bright lights with its sensors, April 1950. The sign reads 'Machina Speculatrix (Testudo); Elmer; Elsie (Habitat - W. England); Please Do Not Feed These Machines.' Image from Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

  • Movement of the Cybernetic Tortoise. Image from THE CYBERNETIC BRAIN: Sketches of Another Future by Andrew Pickering. University of Chicago Press, 2010. Also available here from this review of the book: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/machines-minds-and-madness

    Movement of the Cybernetic Tortoise. Image from THE CYBERNETIC BRAIN: Sketches of Another Future by Andrew Pickering. University of Chicago Press, 2010. Also available here from this review of the book: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/machines-minds-and-madness

  • CORA (Conditional Reflex Analogue)c. 1951 - desktop demonstration version

    CORA (Conditional Reflex Analogue)c. 1951 - desktop demonstration version

  • The circuit diagram of CORA (M. Docilis) from Scientific American, Aug 1951. Image from Cybernetic Zoo

    The circuit diagram of CORA (M. Docilis) from Scientific American, Aug 1951. Image from Cybernetic Zoo

  • W. Grey Walter's cybernetic tortoise without carapace

    W. Grey Walter's cybernetic tortoise without carapace

  • Grey Walter with demonstration version of CORA (Conditional Reflex Analogue)

    Grey Walter with demonstration version of CORA (Conditional Reflex Analogue)

  • Diagram of Cybernetic Tortoise (here referred to as a "turtle), Life Magazine, April 1950

    Diagram of Cybernetic Tortoise (here referred to as a "turtle), Life Magazine, April 1950

  • A tortoise built to the M. Docilis specification i.e. with the conditioned reflex. The student who built it was Ewald Eichler and it was built as part of his diploma thesis -Ewald Eichler: Ein umuetlabhaengiger Automat (Travail de diplome a l’Universite techniquo de Vienne, 1954). More information available via http://cyberneticzoo.com/cyberneticanimals/1954-vienna-turtle-eichler-zemanek-austrian/

    A tortoise built to the M. Docilis specification i.e. with the conditioned reflex. The student who built it was Ewald Eichler and it was built as part of his diploma thesis -Ewald Eichler: Ein umuetlabhaengiger Automat (Travail de diplome a l’Universite techniquo de Vienne, 1954). More information available via http://cyberneticzoo.com/cyberneticanimals/1954-vienna-turtle-eichler-zemanek-austrian/

  • Another view of the Eichler Tortoise. Image from Cybernetic Zoo

    Another view of the Eichler Tortoise. Image from Cybernetic Zoo

  • Circuit diagram for the Eichler Tortoise. Image from Cybernetic Zoo

    Circuit diagram for the Eichler Tortoise. Image from Cybernetic Zoo

  • Image from a Russian pamphlet of the Cybernetic Tortoise, 1969. Image from Cybernetic Zoo. PDF of pamphlet also available via Cybernetic Zoo.

    Image from a Russian pamphlet of the Cybernetic Tortoise, 1969. Image from Cybernetic Zoo. PDF of pamphlet also available via Cybernetic Zoo.

SEER (SEquence Extrapolating Robot)

Links

Browser-based game developed at MIT media lab, a demonstration of Shannon's Mind-reading (?) Machine

Images

THE STRUCTURAL DIFFERENTIAL (The Anthropometre)

Links

Explanation of SD with video footage of Korzybski explaining abstraction
PDF from the ESGS (European Society for General Semantics) on the Structural Differential with lots of photos of SD (see images below)
General Semantics vs Scientology
Patent application filed by Korzybski

Images

  • Relief Anthropometer (Structural Differential) suitable for hanging, image from https://korzybskifiles.blogspot.com/2014/11

    Relief Anthropometer (Structural Differential) suitable for hanging, image from https://korzybskifiles.blogspot.com/2014/11

  • Image from https://www.sevensimplesteps.net/struct-diff.php

    Image from https://www.sevensimplesteps.net/struct-diff.php

  • Diagram of SD, image from PDF available at ESGS website (see above link)

    Diagram of SD, image from PDF available at ESGS website (see above link)

  • Diagram of SD, image from PDF available at ESGS website (see above link)

    Diagram of SD, image from PDF available at ESGS website (see above link)

  • Diagram of SD, image from PDF available at ESGS website (see above link)

    Diagram of SD, image from PDF available at ESGS website (see above link)

  • Diagram of SD, image from PDF available at ESGS website (see above link)

    Diagram of SD, image from PDF available at ESGS website (see above link)

  • Diagram of SD, image from PDF available at ESGS website (see above link)

    Diagram of SD, image from PDF available at ESGS website (see above link)

  • Korzybski with 'deluxe, '3-D' model of Anthropometer with the rotary fan, the 'disk' where there is no disk, around 1927. Image from https://korzybskifiles.blogspot.com/2014/11/chapter-27-measure-of-man-part-3.html

    Korzybski with 'deluxe, '3-D' model of Anthropometer with the rotary fan, the 'disk' where there is no disk, around 1927. Image from https://korzybskifiles.blogspot.com/2014/11/chapter-27-measure-of-man-part-3.html

  • Page 1 of Korzybski's patent application for the Structural Differential

    Page 1 of Korzybski's patent application for the Structural Differential

  • Page 2 of Korzybski's patent application for the Structural Differential

    Page 2 of Korzybski's patent application for the Structural Differential

THE ELECTROPSYCOMETER (The E-Meter)

Links

A VERY comprehensive website on the Scientologist e-Meter (lotsa images)

Images

  • William S. Burroughs with e-Meter (1)

    William S. Burroughs with e-Meter (1)

  • William S. Burroughs with e-Meter (2)

    William S. Burroughs with e-Meter (2)

  • V.G. Mathison's patent diagram of e-Meter (1954)

    V.G. Mathison's patent diagram of e-Meter (1954)

  • Patent application filed by L. Ron Hubbard for "Device for measuring and indicating changes in resistance of a living body" (1966), page 1

    Patent application filed by L. Ron Hubbard for "Device for measuring and indicating changes in resistance of a living body" (1966), page 1

  • L. Ron Hubbard's patent, page 2

    L. Ron Hubbard's patent, page 2

  • Annotated Mark V e-meter

    Annotated Mark V e-meter

  • L. Ron Hubbard in the late 1960s, making an adjustment to the Mark V E-Meter. From The Book Introducing the E-Meter, by L. Ron Hubbard

    L. Ron Hubbard in the late 1960s, making an adjustment to the Mark V E-Meter. From The Book Introducing the E-Meter, by L. Ron Hubbard

  • The e-Meter, as marketed by Scientologists. Image from https://commonsenseatheism.net/tag/e-meter/

    The e-Meter, as marketed by Scientologists. Image from https://commonsenseatheism.net/tag/e-meter/

  • An annotated Scientologist's e-Meter. Image from Wikimedia Commons

    An annotated Scientologist's e-Meter. Image from Wikimedia Commons

THE HOMEOSTAT

Links

Article by Andrew Pickering on Ashby's Homeostat and the brain

Images

THE PORTAPAK: SONY VIDEOROVER DV-2400 (1967)

Links

Many, many photos of the Sony AV-3400 (and other models)

Images

  • The Sony AV-3400 Porta Pak

    The Sony AV-3400 Porta Pak

  • The handheld camera for the Sony AV-3400

    The handheld camera for the Sony AV-3400

  • Video Rover DV 2400 (1967)

    Video Rover DV 2400 (1967)

  • Circuit diagram of the AV-3400's audio system

    Circuit diagram of the AV-3400's audio system

  • Circuit diagram of the AV-3400's video system

    Circuit diagram of the AV-3400's video system

  • Circuit diagram of the AV-3400's demodulator system

    Circuit diagram of the AV-3400's demodulator system


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