Sublime dreams of living machines : the automaton in the European imagination /

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From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton--better known today as the robot--has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of humanity. Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kang, Minsoo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Robotics > Popular works.
Robotics > Europe > History.
Robots in art > History.
Popular culture > Europe > History.
Robotique > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Robotique > Europe > Histoire.
Culture populaire > Europe > Histoire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Robotics.
SCIENCE / History
Popular culture
Robotics
Robots in art
Europe
Electronic books.
History
Popular works
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The power of the automaton
  • The talking head and the list of wonders
  • The man-machine in the world-machine, 1637-1748
  • From the man-machine to the automaton-man, 1748-1793
  • The uncanny automaton, 1789-1833
  • The living machines of the industrial age, 1833-1914
  • The revolt of the robots, 1914-1935.

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