Living Dolls: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life by Gaby Wood
Living Dolls: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life

Gaby Wood

Living Dolls: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life

Gaby Wood

278 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history science technology informative slow-paced
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For centuries, inventors and magicians have tried to simulate life mechanically. Each attempt to build an android is a fundamental challenge to our sense of what makes us human - could an 18th-century mechanical duck really digest and excrete its ...

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