AN AUTOMATON MAN.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 5 November 1880, Page 2

AN AUTOMATON MAN.

After a year of palieut labor a very ingenious automaton Las just beea com* pleied by Mr Hornbarg, of 555 Georgestreet (says the byduey Echo.) Its specialii y is ibsit it waiiis — walks in the same style aud wi'.h much the same motion i>s a human l>eiog does- TUe place occupied by Jua^s, bo irt and other ludjxpens-ib'e or^.ios in tbe bumaa frame aie represeuied ia PijiakeastfiQ —Mr Horabur^'a creation— by niucbioervj aud tbe rattiiug and g ;is pkg bounds wisicli emanate hotn him would be auytaing but reassuring it' they followed the exertiou ot geutia Wiilkiu^ vvheu undertaken by su oidioary person. riuiikfu>teia is about about sit Giu hi^b, j;nd his woodea betid bjs btfca caived Bud paio'ed into ibe shadow re>'cinbiai2i'e of a welt-kuowu poiiticiuu. He is well dressed, ytsd as lie stands at lest bus a Tvcaily of g?ze and a geneial listlessnoss ot demeanour w ii it'll are Iriurnpbs of j;eDtlemaniy iiupassieeness. His motive power is steum, suppliad to him by mentis ot' a horizouia! lui,e, on which ooe baud lesis. This tube is connected at oue etui with a till upright eshaust pi ; >c, into v?Liicii tbe strain Irotn a liUte e^iuu close by passes. As t Le automaton maa mores, an escenUic ia ilie bip revolves, and lever action j bends tbe kuee, raises the toes iiooi the gr-.xiucf, tnd throws tbe loot forward. Then tbe foot drops, and ibe other one lepeat.s tbe action, the imitation oi waik» in? l>eio<r very good. Tbe iuventioa is to be shown in the vestibuie of what was the

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