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PRIVATELY PRINTED OPUSCULA.
AUTOMATA OLD AND NEW.
Automata Old and New
BY CONRAD WILLIAM COOKE, M.INST.E.E.
TO THEIR ODDSHIPS CHARLES HOLME, F.L.S. , PRESIDENT, 1890.
GEORGE CHARLES HAIT?, R.B.A., F.L.S. , PRESIDENT, 1891.
AND
WILLIAM MURRELL, M.D. , PRESIDENT, 1892.
AUTOMATA OLD AND NEW.
The word Automaton would in its strictest and most comprehensive sense include all apparently self-moving machines or devices which contain within themselves their own motive power, and in this sense such machines as clocks and watches, and even locomotives and steamships might be included. I shall, however, throughout this paper limit myself to the more restricted and more ordinarily accepted meaning of the term, namely, such self-moving machines as are made either in the forms of men or of animals, or by which animal motions and functions are more or less imitated.
As mechanics, next to mathematics and astronomy, is the most ancient of sciences, and as the scientific knowledge of the ancients was ever shrouded in mystery to conceal it from the eyes of the vulgar, and to confer upon the initiated power and profit by working on the credulity of the ignorant, it was but only to be expected that mechanical science should be early applied in the ancient mysteries by which the philosophers and the priests of antiquity maintained so much of their supremacy.
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