Show A MACHINE MADE MAN various sensational writers have dealt with creations of machinery which imitated imitated the actions of tho the human body and hero in the united united states recen ity an automatic chess chasa player swept all before him hin but in this the chess playing was done by tho man behind tho the ingenious germans have busied themselves lately in producing an automatic man made mado of springs and metal which rides a bicycle walks writes and docs does other remarkable things the ilus saya at present there Is being exhibited at the circus busch in bedlin a ou human figure which can call do about ill that we can the android walks rides a bicycle cy c le and writes its own name like a creature a re a ot flesh and blood the inventor of the nw new citizen Is herr fred erick ireland and the construction ot of the automaton Is extremely extrom ely int interesting erbst the figure which la is named enig n matelle to 48 about five live feet beven inches h e tall weighs pounds and Is composed of different pieces nieces the feet are of brou frou the lower limbs ot 0 steel and wood wooi an and 1 the arms arras of stool and copper there are nol no less than seven motors in the figure these those being in part driven by springs aad in part by electricity while tho the two strongest motors move the lower members and thus caara tho tile for forward Nyard mave ment I 1 thero aro forty accumulators at 6 eighty four volts delivering 2700 dul amperes peres an hour which the power for the motors and at at the same time serve to maintain the balanco balance to aa as preat jan on extent as Is possible fh in automatic contrivance harr horr ireland lias has copied tho internal mechanism of I 1 the ho human hilman body for example in man the equilibrium la maintained by the tho motion of liqUid sin ln ill the se bemi ml circular I 1 canals of tho the car we arc conscious of our position by tabi nernes of theeo canals communicating to the tile brain tho the position of the in closel liquid 11 in like 1110 manner quicksilver Is used in the automaton and the making malting and breaking of an nil electric curent by tho tile rno motions tiong of this metal resulting from the mo tion of the figure preserve the balance I 1 As the german paper says ono motion pur pushes first tho the left I 1 log forward the figure in consequence moving the loft left but at this movement a body boly of quicksilver which serves it as s a conductor of the tile current 1 comes in contact with a connection connects 0 n which places a motor in movement that in turn establishes the balance again the right foot Is then advanced and the same thing occurs tho figure thus moving forward step by step the other movements are performed in a similar but far more complicated manner the figure crowning its performance by writing its name on a blackboard with a piece of chalk and riding a bicycle public lopint n |