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...Its use began at least as long ago as Theodore Dreiser’s novel An American Tragedy (1925). It set itself in paint in Grant Wood’s “American Gothic”....
...LEONARDO’S LOST ROBOTS by Mark Elling Rosheim Springer ₤23, 188 pages Leonardo da Vinci was fascinated by automata and sketches of robotic mechanisms are spread through his notebooks....
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