Cosma / Communication / Media / Simulation / Analog / Automaton
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Introduction1
KiwiCo (YouTube Channel)
KiwiCo (Official Website)
Dictionary
automaton : a machine or control mechanism designed to follow automatically a predetermined sequence of operations or respond to encoded instructions — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook
Thesaurus
Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords
Encyclopedia
Automaton (plural: automata or automatons) is a self-operating machine. The word is sometimes used to describe a robot, more specifically an autonomous robot. An alternative spelling, now obsolete, is automation. — Wikipedia
Automaton (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Portal
Traditional and Modern Automata (Hanns-Martin Wagner)
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Inspiration
Talks about Automata (TED: Ideas Worth Spreading)
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Innovation
Commerce
Golden Age of Automata (Theriault’s Antique Doll Auctions)
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Preservation
Morris Museum (YouTube Channel)
Guinness Collection: Mechanical Music & Automata (Morris Museum)
The MAD Museum (YouTube Channel)
The MAD Museum (Official Website)
History of Automata (MAD Museum)
Automata in Greek Mythology (MAD Museum)
Automata during the Middle Ages (MAD Museum)
Automata through the Renaissance (MAD Museum)
17th & 18th Century Automata (MAD Museum)
The Golden Age of Automata (MAD Museum)
Automata in Modern Times (MAD Museum)
Notes from the Curator’s Office: Of Automatons and Automata (Museum of Unnatural History)
The Role of Automata in the History of Technology (Silvio A. Bedini, University of Virginia)
Automata (World History Encyclopedia)
History of Automata (Wikipedia)
Library
DDC: 629.8 Automata (Library Thing)
Subject: Automata (Library Thing)
Subject: Automata (Open Library)
Subject: Automata (Library of Congress)
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Participation
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre (YouTube Channel)
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre (Official Website)
Making Automata (Cabaret Mechanical Theatre)
Education
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
Organization
Mechanical Adventures (Facebook)
Automata Automaton (Facebook)
Event
AutomataCon (Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ)
News
Automata (JSTOR)
Automata (EurekaAlert, AAAS)
Automata (NPR Archives)
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Here are links to pages about closely related subjects.
Function | Communications | Computation | Storage | Creation | Simulation |
Analog | Device | Paper | Type, Print | Automaton | |
Electronic | Network | Calculator | Tape | Record | Elektro |
Digital | Internet | Computer | |||
Hardware | Modem | Microprocessor | Memory | Peripheral | Robot, XR |
Software | Service (Web) | Program (OS, SS) | Database | Application | AI, VW |
Format Multimedia (Video, Animation) Image (Object) Scent, Flavor, Audio (Text) Haptic, “Other“
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1. The resources on this page are are organized by a classification scheme developed exclusively for Cosma.