The Silver Swan is the only one in the worldThe Silver Swan, made by James Cox in London in about 1773, is a life-size clockwork automaton that imitates the behaviour of a real swan. Cox was a ...

The Silver Swan is the only one in the worldThe Silver Swan, made by James Cox in London in about 1773, is a life-size clockwork automaton that imitates the behaviour of a real swan. Cox was a ...

Machines in search of autonomy, from a miraculous 16th century mechanical ‘Monk’, a breathing clockwork Mozartian ... and ponders the world of the automaton; from a miraculous 16th century ...