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Title: Edison's Eve : A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life by Gaby Wood ISBN: 0-679-45112-9 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 13 August, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An Anecdotal, Quirky History
Comment: Edison's Eve (Edison's attempt to create a successful talking doll) is both the title of Gaby Wood's book and one of the centrepiece chapters of this journey on the quest for mechanical life. Other chapters concern the Doll Family of midgets, the movies of Melies, the automatons of Vaucanson and the deception of the chess playing Turk (not an actual automaton). These pieces do not always blend together smoothly but the author works very hard to connect all the dots. On their own, though, each chapter is fascinating and filled with memorable anecdotes and will have the reader looking at the world in a different way. An enjoyable read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating read.
Comment: 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 the Famous
Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine by Tom Standage. Equally strange & pleasurable.
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Title: The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine by Tom Standage ISBN: 0425190390 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen by Barbara Maria Stafford, Frances Terpak, Isotta Poggi, J. Paul Getty Museum ISBN: 0892365900 Publisher: Getty Ctr for Education in the Arts Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us by Rodney Brooks ISBN: 0375420797 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder : Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler ISBN: 0679764895 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 26 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Cabinets of Curiosities by Patrick Mauries ISBN: 0500510911 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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