Sublime dreams of living machines [electronic resource] : the automaton in the European imagination / Minsoo Kang.

By: Kang, MinsooContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011Description: x, 374 pISBN: 9780674059412 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Robotics -- Popular works | Robotics -- Europe -- History | Robots in art -- History | Popular culture -- Europe -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 629.8/92094 LOC classification: TJ211.15 | .K36 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
The power of the automaton -- The talking head and the list of wonders -- The man-machine in the world-machine, 1637-1748 -- From the man-machine to the automaton-man, 1748-1793 -- The uncanny automaton, 1789-1833 -- The living machines of the industrial age, 1833-1914 -- The revolt of the robots, 1914-1935.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The power of the automaton -- The talking head and the list of wonders -- The man-machine in the world-machine, 1637-1748 -- From the man-machine to the automaton-man, 1748-1793 -- The uncanny automaton, 1789-1833 -- The living machines of the industrial age, 1833-1914 -- The revolt of the robots, 1914-1935.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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