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"Living Dolls" tells the story of humanity's age-old obsession with moving dolls and speaking robots, intelligent machines and bionic men - and it gives the history of ingenious inventors and their fantastical creations. Could an 18th-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 21st-century robot express human emotions?

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Electronics & communications engineering Electronics engineering

• Full title: Living Dolls
• Subtitle: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life
• Author: Gaby Wood
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780571214662
• ID: 09233107
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 230 g
• Dimensions: 200 × 127 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. March 2003

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