Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 16, 2020

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Nevada also means “snowfall”.

There were robots way back in the 1860s?

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.

Here I thought “Nevada” meant “what’s done here, stays here”.

Steam Punk … I love it! Did it actually look like this illustration?

I like that he made the robot look like a cartoon character. What a dork.

Does it even snow regularly in Nevada?

That’s pretty grisly work on the part of Madame Tussaud, there…

The good Madame was a freaky lady!!

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

“Off with their heads! .. That’ll be 12 pence. In advance.”

Take care, may bladda-bla durp verglord be with you, and GESUNDHEIT.

Is that old Nevada or New Nevada?

Wax on, head off (her maiden name was Marie Miyagi).

So, in the 1860s inventors were more environmentally conscious?

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

…like a rickshaw; btw, the word “rickshaw” is only known to date back to 1879, at least a decade later.

Is there a wax statue of Madame Tussaud anywhere?

my first car was Dederick

FWIW, Madame Tussaud’s full name was Anna Maria Tussaud, tho she answered to “Marie.”

The origins of Steampunk!

Unfortunately, Madame Tussaud was criticized for keeping up the practice after the revolution…

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?

Madame Wax Lady: Or Not!

1860 Robot Guy: Believe it

Nevada Snow Cone: Lo creo!

May the gourd be with you.

Actually “nevada” is “snowfall”.