Automaton

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automaton : a machine or control mechanism designed to follow automatically a predetermined sequence of operations or respond to encoded instructions — 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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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)
History of Automata (Wikipedia)

Man-Machine from the Greeks to the Computer (Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas)

Library

Melvil Decimal System # 629.8 Automata (Library Thing)
Library of Congress Subject Heading: Automata (Library Thing)

WorldCat, Library of Congress, UPenn Online Books, Open Library

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Participation

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre (YouTube Channel)
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre (Official Website)

Making Automata (Cabaret Mechanical Theatre)

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Media

Function	Communications	Computation	Storage	Creation	Simulation
Analog	Mail	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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Notes

1. The resources on this page are are organized by a classification scheme developed exclusively for Cosma.