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Definition of Automatons
1. automaton [n] - See also: automaton
Lexicographical Neighbors of Automatons
Literary usage of Automatons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy by Jacques Ozanam, Jean Etienne Montucla (1814)
"Some machines of this kind are mentioned in ancient history, in terms of the
utmost admiration. Such were the tripod automatons of Vulcan; and the dove of ..."
2. Modern Industrial Progress by Charles Henry Cochrane (1904)
"... M The Droz automatons. Away back in the eighteenth century there-was a craze
fi* puppets or marionettes, and Jacquet Droz and his son of the same name ..."
3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1853)
"He was buried in the Greyfriars' churchyard; but no stone points out to the
stranger where the Scottish minstrel sleeps. or pasteboard automatons in a raree ..."
4. Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines edited by Enos Bronson (1812)
"automatons.—Three automatons are now exhibiting at Paris: the first writes the
names of persons; the second copies drawings ; and the third, ..."
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