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Maillardet automaton’s worked (New York Times)
Notes from the Curator’s Office: Of Automatons and Automata (Museum of Unnatural History)
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Dictionary
automaton : a machine or control mechanism designed to follow automatically a predetermined sequence of operations or respond to encoded instructions — Webster
Oxford, OneLook, Free Dictionary, Wiktionary, InfoPlease, Word Reference, Urban Dictionary
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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
Britannica, Columbia (Infoplease)
Directory
Papercrafts, Hanns-Martin Wagner, DMOZ Open Directory Project (AOL)
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Preservation
History
7 Early Robots and Automatons (Evan Andrews, History.com)
The Role of Automata in the History of Technology (Silvio A. Bedini, University of Virginia)
Museum
Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of 750 historic mechanical musical instruments and automata (Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ)
There Used to Be an Entire Museum Full of Weird, Old Robots, And You Can Still Take a Video Tour (Rose Eveleth, Smithsonian.com)
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WorldCat, Library of Congress, UPenn Online Books, Open Library
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