Encyclopaedia metropolitana: Automata

This is a little snippet of text from a wonderful book from 1845 called:

ENCYCLOPAEDIA METROPOLITANA;
OR,
UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF KNOWLEDGE,

COMPRISING THE TWOFOLD ADVANTAGE OF
A PHILOSOPHICAL AND AN ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT,
WITH APPROPRIATE ENGRAVINGS.

I love those old verbose titles! There is a four page entry on automata from page 146 to page 150. It's very interesting.

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