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Living Dolls: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life
Living Dolls A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life
Author: Gaby Wood
"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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780571214662
ISBN-10: 0571214665
Publication Date: 3/17/2003
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Faber and Faber
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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