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A fine-grained study with a bold argument: that the history of machines and the history of emotions are deeply connected. Adelheid Voskuhl breaks apart hackneyed associations of 'man and machine' by looking at women and machines in the context of music, artisanal industry, and Enlightenment culture. After you spend time with the piano-playing automata featured in this book, you will never see androids in the same way again. --Rosalind Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A fine-grained study with a bold argument: that the history of machines and the history of emotions are deeply connected. Adelheid Voskuhl breaks apart hackneyed associations of 'man and machine' by looking at women and machines in the context of music, artisanal industry, and Enlightenment culture. After you spend time with the piano-playing automata featured in this book, you will never see androids in the same way again. <br>--Rosalind Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A fine-grained study with a bold argument: that the history of machines and the history of emotions are deeply connected.Adelheid Voskuhl breaks apart hackneyed associations of man and machine by looking at women and machines in the context of music, artisanal industry, and Enlightenment culture. After you spend time with the piano-playing automata featured in this book, you will never see androids in the same way again. --Rosalind Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Adelheid Voskuhl is associate professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University.

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