Edison's Eve

Author: Gaby Wood
Edition: 1 Amer ed
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0679451129

Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life

A rich and informative exploration of our age-old obsession with "making life. Download Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared.

Could an eighteenth-century mechanical duck really digest and excrete its food? Was "the Turk," a celebrated chess-playing and -winning machine fabricated in 1769, a dazzling piece of fakery, or could it actually think? Why was Thomas Edison obsessed with making a mechanical doll-a perfect woman, mass-produced? Can a twenty-first-century robot express human emotions of its own?

Taking up themes long familiar from the realms of fairy tales and science fiction, Gaby Wood traces the hidden prehistory of a modern idea-the thinking, hoaxes, and inventions that presaged contemporary robotics and the current experiments with artificial intelligence. Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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