Philosophy
Here is a collection of robots from the 1970's back as depicted through advertising, television, and motion pictures. Identification is made when possible and the sequence is random except for category.
Motion pictures...
Cindrella 2000
Flesh Gordon [1974]
Gort [The Day the Earth Stood Still] [1951]
Phantom Empire [Serial] [1940's]
Robbie [Forbidden Planet] [1956]
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians [1964]
The Monster and the Ape [1945]
The Robot vs The Aztec Mummy [1958]
The Undersea Kingdom [Serial] [1936]
Tobor the Great
Television...
Gilligan's Island
Robbie and Angela Cartwright
Superman
Advertising...
Charles Lawson [Early 1930's]
Electro [1939 World's Fair]
Gog [1954]
Mr. Televox
Mr. Televox, the mechanical man, makes a fourth at the Huntington Hotel during the convention of the Pacific Coast Electrical Association in 1928.
Old Glory Insurance
Satarical Ad
Saturday Night Live
Queen Zorine
1935
Unknown...
Steam robot [1868]
- Modern Mencken
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- The Nature Of Genius
What does it mean for one to be a genius? Is genius just the upper end of the really smart continuum? Is there a difference between genius and really, really, really, smart? Is it a difference of kind or degree? Is genius a matter of...
- Historians, Archaeologists, And Scientists
Are historians scientists? They frame hypotheses about the causes and effects of real events and use empirical evidence to support their accounts. But they don't do not look for regularities to make into laws; to the contrary, they account...
- Grammar Curmudeons
Had a student ask yesterday about grammatical pet peeves. His was "irregardless." My big three are: 1) "Quote" used for "quotation." Quote is a verb. You quote someone. What you write down is not a quote, but a quotation. ...
- Pulp Scifi Online
They are getting rare, expensive, and quite fragile. Here is a large assortment for reading online or download. [NOTE: Some of the files have been expurgated for copyright reasons.] Amazing Science Fiction Stories, Volume 15, Number 11, November 1941...
Philosophy
Assorted robots
Motion pictures...
Chani from Devil Girl from Mars [1954]
Cindrella 2000
Flesh Gordon [1974]
Gort [The Day the Earth Stood Still] [1951]
Phantom Empire [Serial] [1940's]
Robbie [Forbidden Planet] [1956]
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians [1964]
Target Earth
The Monster and the Ape [1945]
The Robot vs The Aztec Mummy [1958]
The Undersea Kingdom [Serial] [1936]
Tobor the Great
Zombies of the Stratosphere [Serial] [1952]
Captain Video
Cybermen [Dr. Who]
White Robots [Dr. Who]
Lost in Space
Robbie [Dobie Gillis]
White Robots [Dr. Who]
Lost in Space
Robbie [Dobie Gillis]
Gilligan's Island
Robbie and Angela Cartwright
Superman
Advertising...
Alpha [Early 1930's. Read more. ]
Charles Lawson [Early 1930's]
Electro [1939 World's Fair]
Gog [1954]
Mr. Televox
Mr. Televox, the mechanical man, makes a fourth at the Huntington Hotel during the convention of the Pacific Coast Electrical Association in 1928.
Old Glory Insurance
Satarical Ad
Saturday Night Live
Queen Zorine
1935
Yasutaro Mitsui and Steel Humanoid
1932
Steam robot [1868]
- Modern Mencken
Tomorrow is Mencken day at the Enoch Pratt Library, honoring one of the great intellects of Baltimore. Who would be the modern day version of H.L. Mencken? Is there a writer who is smart, ascerbic, conservative, and wry? P.J. O'Rourke? ...
- The Nature Of Genius
What does it mean for one to be a genius? Is genius just the upper end of the really smart continuum? Is there a difference between genius and really, really, really, smart? Is it a difference of kind or degree? Is genius a matter of...
- Historians, Archaeologists, And Scientists
Are historians scientists? They frame hypotheses about the causes and effects of real events and use empirical evidence to support their accounts. But they don't do not look for regularities to make into laws; to the contrary, they account...
- Grammar Curmudeons
Had a student ask yesterday about grammatical pet peeves. His was "irregardless." My big three are: 1) "Quote" used for "quotation." Quote is a verb. You quote someone. What you write down is not a quote, but a quotation. ...
- Pulp Scifi Online
They are getting rare, expensive, and quite fragile. Here is a large assortment for reading online or download. [NOTE: Some of the files have been expurgated for copyright reasons.] Amazing Science Fiction Stories, Volume 15, Number 11, November 1941...