"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 speaking mechanical child? What happened to the family of ...
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"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 speaking mechanical child? What happened to the family of midgets who pretended to be dolls? And how can a 21st-century robot express human emotions?
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Very Good+ in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7æ-9æ" tall. Hardcover, black boards lettered in silver on spine, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 278 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with eight pages of black and white photographs. First British edition. "Living Dolls looks at humanity's age-old obsession with moving dolls and speaking robots, intelligent machines and bionic men." (jacket) No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, unmarked copy with mild toning to margins as per usual with this English edition. Very good in a fine dust-jacket, protected by clear Brodart covers.
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