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| #4816545 in Books | 2003-03-17 | Original language:English | 7.87 x.87 x5.00l,.51 | File type: PDF | 304 pages||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating, but dry|By R. Newnham|I picked up this book as research for a project I'm working on, and it is pretty fascinating. How far back the creation of life-approximating automata goes is very interesting. The writing is pretty dry, however, and this is my only real criticism of the book. Wood goes pretty deep into what I would consider minutiae, and, while I can see that|About the Author|Gaby Wood was born in 1971. She read French at Cambridge University and is the author of a short work of non-fiction, The Smallest of All Persons Mentioned in the Records of Littleness. She has contributed to the Guardian and the London of Boo
"Living Dolls" tells the story of humanity's age-old obsession with moving dolls and speaking robots, intelligent machines and bionic men - and it gives the history of ingenious inventors and their fantastical creations. Could an 18th-century mechanical duck really digest and excrete its food? Was the "Automatic Turk", a celebrated chess-playing machine that toured around Europe, a fake? Why did the great inventor Thomas Edison go to so much effort to mass produce a spea...
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