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100 1 $aWood, Gaby.
245 10 $aEdison's Eve :$ba magical history of the quest for mechanical life /$cGaby Wood.
250 $aFirst Anchor books edition
264 1 $aNew York :$bAnchor Books,$c2003.
264 4 $c©2002.
300 $axxviii, 304 pages :$billustrations ;$c20 cm
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500 $a"Originally published in Great Britain as Living Dolld by Faber and Faber limited, London, 2002.
520 1 $a"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. Informed by the author's scientific and historical research, Edison's Eve is also a brilliant literary, cultural, and philosophical examination of the motives that have driven human beings to pursue the creation of mechanical life, and the effects of that pursuit - both in its successes and in its failures - on our sense of what makes us human."--Jacket.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 271-189) and index.
505 0 $aThe Blood of an Android -- An Unreasonable Game -- Journey to the Perfect Woman -- Magical Mysteries, Mechanical Dreams -- The Doll Family.
650 0 $aRobots$xDesign and construction$xHistory.
650 0 $aArtificial intelligence.
650 7 $aArtificial intelligence.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00817247
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655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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