A robotic jumbo dumbo! 8 feet tall and walking at 27 miles per hour. Mr. Stuart's handmade Elephant has 9,000 parts, a steel frame and a 10 horsepower motor. A great enough photograph, but imagine my surprise at finding a film of the big fella!
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Original Press Photograph 1950 Collection Jim Linderman
Very cool!
ReplyDeleteWonder how far and wide his orders were sent? Do any of them still exist?
Wanna wanna!
ReplyDeleteOh this is so cool, thanks for the post. TF
ReplyDeleteIt's still alive and living somewhere in Michigan: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4628921405455956969&hl=en#docid=-7465676132985922163
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