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The robot book / by Robert Malone ; editor, William E. Maloney ; producer, Jean-Claude Suarès ; design director, Seymour Chwast ; designer, Richard Mantel ; created and produced by Push Pin Press.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Robot book
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malone, Robert.
- Series:
- Harvest/HBJ book
- A Harvest/HBJ book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Robots.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 159 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1978]
- Contents:
- Chronology of robot-related events
- What is a robot?
- Origins: early devices; the Egyptian connection; Automatons; Early machines; creation of R.U.R.; The man-machine
- Robot as hero-villain: 1920s: the fledglings; 1930s: robots grow up; 1940s: off to war; 1950s: age of Asimov; 1960s: a social conscience; 1970s: to the stars
- Robots at work: industry; simulated environments; medicine-science; space
- The entertainer: around town; toys; movies and TV
- The art scene
- Inside the robot
- How to bild a robot: a young inventor; by the package; personal creations
- Coping with robots
- The future.
- Notes:
- "A Push Pin Press book."
- Includes bibliographical references (page 158).
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 287157
- ISBN:
- 0156784521
- 9780156784528
- OCLC:
- 4045813
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