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A loan exhibition of antique automatons : for the benefit of the Pestalozzi Foundation of America, November 3-December 5, 1950.

“…Antique automatons…”

That exquisite little automaton artist. Called the Corinthian Maid :

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Poupées et automates de collection = Antiques dolls and automatons.

The universal conjuror, or, The whole art of legerdemain : as practised by the famous Breslaw, Katterfelto, Jonas, Flockton, Comas, and by the greatest adepts in London and Paris : containing a variety of tricks and deceptions with cards, cups, and balls, automaton figures, German puddings, quicksilver, birds, eggs, rings, money, handkerchiefs, watches, &c. : never before made public,

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Important pocket watches and wristwatches.

Table of Contents: “…Guido Panerai & Figlio -- Cartier -- Patek Philippe -- Automatons -- Piaget.…”

Fine European silver.

Objects of vertu, fine fans, decorative jewellery, watches, enamels and gold boxes = Objets de vertu, beaux ʹeventails, bijoux dʹecoratifs, montres, ʹemaux et bôites en or.

Japanese lessons : a year in a Japanese school through the eyes of an American anthropologist and her children by Benjamin, Gail

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Treasures : princely taste.

Table of Contents: “…I-V, Silver from the collection of Dom Fernando II, King of Portugal -- I, The Lisbon silver bowl and cover -- II, The Renaissance dish -- III, The Renaissance flagon -- IV, The Bishop Salazar tazza -- V, The Bishop Garabito salver -- VI, 'Spoliatis Arma Supersunt' -- VII-IX, Hardstone masterworks from the Galleria Dei Lavori, Florence -- VII, A gilt-bronze mounted casket -- VIII, The Foggini frame -- IX, Francesco Papillion in Fiorenza -- X, The Von Lerber Skylark drinking cup -- XI, A sumptuous Roman Baroque casket -- XII, The Prince de Ligne Beloeil altarpiece -- XIII, A moralising tapestry for Renaissance rulers -- XIV, The Habsburg ceremonial silver vessel -- XV, Augsburg courtly games -- XVI, suited for a Roman palazzo -- XVII, A new addition to Sageot's oeuvre -- XVI, Suited for a Roman palazzo -- XVII, A new addition to Sageot's oeuvre -- XVIII, Quintessentially Rococo -- XIX, Armchairs for the court of Louis XV's daughter in Parma -- XX, Allegories of the elements -- XXI, The Torckler elephant automaton clock -- XXII, The elegance of Montigny -- XXIII, Fauteuils à la reine by Pothier -- XXIV, Valadier -- XXV, The Nuthall temple chairs -- XXVI, The Baron Lionel de Rothschild vases aux Tritons -- XXVII, Roentgen's mechanics -- XXVIII, A Jacob table for J. …”

Powers of divergence : an experimental approach to music performance by D'Errico, Lucia

Table of Contents: “…Modes of Exposition -- Appendix 1 Techniques of Minoration -- Appendix 2 List of Musical Examples -- Closing Remarks -- References -- Biographical Note -- BOOK II Derivates -- BOOK III Five Glances upon the practice -- Derivative I On Three Different (Musical) Eyes -- Derivative II The Phonocentric Vision of Music -- First Glance -- Derivative III An Eye That Sees Itself -- Derivative IV The Joyous Power of Simulacra -- Derivative V How to Defy Perspective through Perspective -- Derivative VI Automaton -- Derivative VII How to Produce a Phantasm? …”
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Logic and automata : history and perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Haverkort, Holger Hermanns, Joost-Pieter Katoen Logical theories and compatible operations Achim Blumensath, Thomas Colcombet, Christof Löding Forest algebras Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Igor Walukiewicz Automata and semigroups recognizing infinite words Olivier Carton, Dominique Perrin, Jean-Éric Pin Deterministic graph grammars Didier Caucal Quantifier-free definable graph operations preserving recognizability Bruno Courcelle First-order definable languages Volker Diekert, Paul Gastin Matrix-based complexity functions and recognizable picture languages Dora Giammarresi, Antonio Restivo Applying Blackwell optimality: priority mean-payoff games as limits of multi-discounted games Hugo Gimbert, Wieslaw Zielonka Logic, graphs, and algorithms Martin Grohe Non-regular fixed-point logics and games Stephan Kreutzer, Martin Lange The universal automaton Sylvain Lombardy, Jacques Sakarovitch Deterministic top-down tree automata: past, present, and future Wim Martens, Frank Neven, Thomas Schwentick Expressive power of monadic logics on words, trees, pictures, and graphs Oliver Matz, Nicole Schweikardt Structured strategies in games on graphs R. …”
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Machine scoring of student essays : truth and consequences

Table of Contents: “…/ Patricia Freitag Ericsson -- Can't touch this : reflections on the servitude of computers as readers / Chris M. Anson -- Automatons and automated scoring : drudges and black boxes, and dei ex machina / Richard H. …”
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Techno-Orientalism : imagining Asia in speculative fiction, history, and media

Table of Contents: “…: The Techno-Orientalized Body in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Larissa Lai's Automaton Biographies / Catherine Fung -- 15. A Poor Man from a Poor Country: Nam June Paik, TV-Buddha, and the Techno-Orientalist Lens / Charles Park.…”
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Duchamp in context : science and technology in the Large glass and related works by Henderson, Linda Dalrymple, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Part III: "Playful" science and technology in The Bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even (The large glass), 1915-1923 ; Toward the large glass: the box of 1914 and general introduction to the glass ; The "Box of 1914" and the model of Leonardo's science ; New York, 1915: Execution of the "Large glass" begins ; First conceptions of the Bride and her interaction with the bachelors ; The theme of collision: from popular culture to science and beyond ; The Bride as automobile ; The Bride as a modern automaton descended from Villiers's "L'Eve future" ; The Large glass as a painting of electromagnetic frequency ; Hertzian waves and wireless telegraphy in French culture and avant-garde literature ; Communication via electromagnetic waves in the art and theory of Kupka ; Wireless telegraphy, telepathy,…”

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