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Automaton, Automata, & Mechanical Books

Here are mechanical reference and automata-related books that I have reviewed, own, or want. For a quick one-stop shopping, check out the automata-specific Amazon.com store I created.

Automata Related Books Reviewed by Dug North

Making Mad Toys & Mechanical Marvels in Wood - formerly Whacky Toys, Whiligigs, & Whatchamacallits

Basic Machines and How They Work - a foundation in mechanics that's short and clear.

Automata and Mechanical Toys - If you love automata, this book is a must-have.

Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors (4-Volume Set) - For the mechanically fanatical

Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook - A nice mechanical reference book

Making Wooden Mechanical Models- The beauty of basic machines, in wood

Whacky Toys, Whirligigs & Whatchamacallits - A favorite of mine for the author's keen aesthetics

Making Mechanical Marvels In Wood - Key building blocks for contemporary wooden automata

How to Carve Wood - A classic text that covers all forms of wood carving

Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements- A inexpensive gold mine of individual mechanisms

Mechanical Reference & Automata Related Books I Own, But Have Not Reviewed

Making Mechanical Toys

Making Marble-Action Games, Gadgets, Mazes & Contraptions

Toys and Models

Automata: The Golden Age 1848-1914

Automata Too: Four Working Models to Cut Out and Glue Together

A Handbook of Paper Automata Mechanisms

Paper Automata: Four Working Models to Cut Out & Glue Together

Battery Toys: The Modern Automata

Automata and Mechanical Toys (Mary Hiller)

Mechanical Toys

Animatronics: Guide to Holiday Displays

Machine Devices and Components Illustrated Sourcebook

Tabletop Machining

Mechanical Devices for the Electronics Experimenter

Crescendo of the Virtuoso: Spectacle, Skill, and Self-Promotion in Paris during the Age of Revolution (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)

Edison's Eve : A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life

Home Machinists Handbook

Leonardo's Lost Robots

Pictorial Handbook of Technical Devices

The Art And Craft of Whirligig Construction

How to Make Animated Toys

Making More Wooden Mechanical Models

Automata Related Books I Do Not Have, But I Want

The Sciences in Enlightened Europe - Simon Schaffer's piece on "Enlightenment Automata"

Carving Caricature Head & Faces

Making Working Wooden Locks

More Working Wooden Locks

New Wood Puzzle Designs

Spooner's Moving Animals or the Zoo of Tranquillity

Cam Design and Manufacturing Handbook

Kinematic Design of Machines and Mechanisms

The Engineer's Sketch Book of Mechanical Movements

Manual of Mechanical Movements

1800 Mechanical Movements, Devices and Appliances (Dover Science Books)

Mechanical Movements and Devices

Engineer's Illustrated Thesaurus

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