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The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids. The author investigates two such automata - both depicting piano-playing women. She demonstrates that only in a later age of industrial factory production did mechanical androids instill the fear that societies had become indistinguishable from machines.

Androids in the Enlightenment Mechanics Artisans

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    A Paperback / softback by Adelheid Voskuhl

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 05/03/2015
      ISBN13: 9780226034164, 978-0226034164
      ISBN10: 022603416X
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      Book Synopsis
      The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids. The author investigates two such automata - both depicting piano-playing women. She demonstrates that only in a later age of industrial factory production did mechanical androids instill the fear that societies had become indistinguishable from machines.

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