[PDF.58tt] Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life

Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life

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 | #1026814 in Books |  Anchor |  2003-07-08 |  2003-07-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.70 x5.20l,.70 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating read.|By JAL|This is a great book for anyone interested in automata - and that includes computer people interested in artificial language, philosophers interested in what makes us human, cultural anthropologists interested in the interaction of humans and machines, and poets interested in all of the above. If you like this, try also The Turk: The Life and Times of|From Publishers Weekly|In five entertaining chapters, British journalist Wood describes the ways humans have built machines to resemble themselves over the past three centuries. Wood begins with the dynamic creations of the 18th-century Frenchman Jacques de Vauc

During the eighteenth century, the inventor Jacques de Vaucanson created a mechanical duck that seemingly could digest and excrete its food. A few decades later, Europeans fell in love with “the Turk,” a celebrated chess-playing machine built in 1769. Thomas Edison was obsessed for years with making a talking mechanical doll, one of his few failures as an inventor. In our own time, scientists at MIT are trying to build a robot with emotions of its own.

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life   |  Gaby Wood. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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