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Mechanical swan that entranced Mark Twain lands at Science Museum
An 18th-century automaton that entranced Mark Twain and generations of other viewers will be a star attraction at the Science Museum’s Robots exhibition. When the swan was first displayed in the 18th century, admission cost the enormous sum of five shillings. Twain, the Huckleberry Finn author, who saw it in an exhibition in Paris in…
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Retrospective ROBOTS exhibition at Science Museum
Only now is technological reality catching up with the robots that have so long haunted science fiction. Leonardo da Vinci, whose art is arguably one huge experiment in science fiction, made a mechanical monster to impress the king of France in the early 1500s. At the start of the 20th century, artists and writers became…
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