Living Dolls
Gaby Wood · 2002
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About the book
"Living Dolls is a true history of ingenious inventors and their fantastical creations - of men who wanted to play God." "Could an eighteenth-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 twenty-first-century robot express human emotions?" "Living Dolls looks at humanity's age-old obsession with moving dolls and speaking robots, intelligent machines and bionic men."--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 2002
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Editions
- 2
- Pages
- 278
- ISBN
- 9780571178797
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