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Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life book cover by Gaby Wood
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Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life

by Gaby Wood

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Paperback · 352 pages Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 2003

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Edison's Eve

During the eighteenth century, the inventor Jacques de Vaucanson created a mechanical duck that seemingly could digest and excrete its food. A few decades later, Europeans fell in love with “the Turk,” a celebrated chess-playing machine built in 1769. Thomas Edison was obsessed for years with making a talking mechanical doll, one of his few failures as an inventor. In our own time, scientists at MIT are trying to build a robot with emotions of its own.

What lies behind our age-old pursuit to create mechanical life? What does this pursuit tell us about human nature? In Edison’s Eve Gaby Wood traces the history of robotics, from its most brilliant inventions to its most ingenious hoaxes. Joining lively anecdote with literary, cultural, and philosophical insights, Wood offers a captivating and learned work of science and history.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Author
Gaby Wood
Format
Paperback
Published
Jul 8, 2003
ISBN-13
9781400031580
ISBN-10
1400031583
Pages
352
Carton quantity
24 copies
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