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The House of Automata (Forres, Scotland)
The House of Automata (Neat Older Site)
The House of Automata Gallery (Neat Older Site)
The Golden Age of Automata (MAD Museum)
Modern Automaton (Wikipedia)
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General
Portal
Traditional and Modern Automata (Hanns-Martin Wagner)
Automata and Mechanical Toys
Dictionary
automaton : a machine or control mechanism designed to follow automatically a predetermined sequence of operations or respond to encoded instructions — Webster
OneLook, Free Dictionary, Wiktionary
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
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Innovation
MAD Museum of Mechanical Art (Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK)
Technology
Making Automata (Cabaret Mechanical Theatre)
Automata (Automata and Mechanical Toys)
Commerce
Golden Age of Automata (Theriault’s Antique Doll Auctions)
Preservation
The Writer, Lady Musician and Draftsman (Pierre Jaquet-Droz, History of Computers)
Maillardet’s Automaton (The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia)
Maillardet automaton’s worked (New York Times)
Maillardet’s automaton aka or Draughtsman-Writer (Wikipedia)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Automaton (Brian Selznick)
See also Cosma Post about Georges Méliès
History
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)
History of Automata (Wikipedia)
Museum
Library
WorldCat, Library of Congress, UPenn Online Books, Open Library
Book
Participation
Organization
Automata Automaton (Facebook)
Mechanical Adventures (Facebook)
Event
Expression
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre (London)
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre (YouTube Channel)
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre (Wikipedia)