Sierra equals saw (Reference saw tooth mountains of Sierra Nevada), Los Angeles =the angels, Montana= mountain, Colorado= red color, Arizona= Arid Zone, El Paso= the pass, Mesa Grande= the big table…etc
Mr. Dederick’s invention may have been the inspiration for the first U.S. science fiction dime novel “The Steam Man of the Prairies” by Edward S. Ellis
wikiwiki snipped..Zadoc P. Dederick was an American inventor. Along with Isaac Grass he was the creator of a steam-powered humanlike robot designed to pull a cart.1 The invention was patented on March 24, 1868, as patent 75874,2 and operated through a system of levers and cranks, attached to steam-powered pistons and a boiler. The original prototype cost $2000 (about $32,487 in modern US dollars) and was built in Newark, New Jersey. Plans to produce it for $300 never went through, making this an example of an early development in steam power that was abandoned.3 Nonetheless, inventions such as this one spurred interest in steam power, as exemplified by novels such as The Steam Man of the Prairies, and by many imitations and hoaxes that appeared as a result.4
They called it Nevada because they saw it from the Pacific side of the mountains? Always sounded weird when described as time zones on tv by the announcers. Desert to the east of those mountains. Did any movie ever pretend Nevada, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico or Oklahoma were anything other than desert?
Leroy over 3 years ago
Viewer discretion advised (severed heads):
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6U-ou0GnOQo/TZs4W17aLBI/AAAAAAAAAtU/Y7Z72xHwc3E/s1600/tussaud.jpg
i_am_the_jam over 3 years ago
Nevada also means “snowfall”.
Gent over 3 years ago
There were robots way back in the 1860s?
Dean over 3 years ago
MIT must be wasting their time developing walking robots . . . Steam is the way to go!
The guillotine seems to be the most humane way to deal with executions, instead of putting the prisoner to sleep after a needle stick.
sevaar777 over 3 years ago
Here I thought “Nevada” meant “what’s done here, stays here”.
LeftCoastKen Premium Member over 3 years ago
Steam Punk … I love it! Did it actually look like this illustration?
Caldonia over 3 years ago
I like that he made the robot look like a cartoon character. What a dork.
jpayne4040 over 3 years ago
Does it even snow regularly in Nevada?
ForrestOverin over 3 years ago
That’s pretty grisly work on the part of Madame Tussaud, there…
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 3 years ago
The good Madame was a freaky lady!!
J Short over 3 years ago
Sierra equals saw (Reference saw tooth mountains of Sierra Nevada), Los Angeles =the angels, Montana= mountain, Colorado= red color, Arizona= Arid Zone, El Paso= the pass, Mesa Grande= the big table…etc
tdl3366 over 3 years ago
Mr. Dederick’s invention may have been the inspiration for the first U.S. science fiction dime novel “The Steam Man of the Prairies” by Edward S. Ellis
Huckleberry Hiroshima over 3 years ago
“Off with their heads! .. That’ll be 12 pence. In advance.”
Take care, may bladda-bla durp verglord be with you, and GESUNDHEIT.
Radish the wordsmith over 3 years ago
Is that old Nevada or New Nevada?
comixbomix over 3 years ago
Wax on, head off (her maiden name was Marie Miyagi).
WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago
So, in the 1860s inventors were more environmentally conscious?
cupertino jay over 3 years ago
wikiwiki snipped..Zadoc P. Dederick was an American inventor. Along with Isaac Grass he was the creator of a steam-powered humanlike robot designed to pull a cart.1 The invention was patented on March 24, 1868, as patent 75874,2 and operated through a system of levers and cranks, attached to steam-powered pistons and a boiler. The original prototype cost $2000 (about $32,487 in modern US dollars) and was built in Newark, New Jersey. Plans to produce it for $300 never went through, making this an example of an early development in steam power that was abandoned.3 Nonetheless, inventions such as this one spurred interest in steam power, as exemplified by novels such as The Steam Man of the Prairies, and by many imitations and hoaxes that appeared as a result.4
dmagoon202ii over 3 years ago
…like a rickshaw; btw, the word “rickshaw” is only known to date back to 1879, at least a decade later.
diegot over 3 years ago
Is there a wax statue of Madame Tussaud anywhere?
oakie817 over 3 years ago
my first car was Dederick
Stephen Gilberg over 3 years ago
FWIW, Madame Tussaud’s full name was Anna Maria Tussaud, tho she answered to “Marie.”
queenoftut over 3 years ago
The origins of Steampunk!
Craig Westlake over 3 years ago
Unfortunately, Madame Tussaud was criticized for keeping up the practice after the revolution…
heathcliff2 over 3 years ago
They called it Nevada because they saw it from the Pacific side of the mountains? Always sounded weird when described as time zones on tv by the announcers. Desert to the east of those mountains. Did any movie ever pretend Nevada, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico or Oklahoma were anything other than desert?
gozar over 3 years ago
Madame Wax Lady: Or Not!
1860 Robot Guy: Believe it
Nevada Snow Cone: Lo creo!
May the gourd be with you.
oscssw over 3 years ago
Actually “nevada” is “snowfall”.