Interesting. In 1886, the French novelist Villiers de l'Isle Adam published The Future Eve, in which a fictionalized Edison invents the first (female) android. So, before the real Edison's talking dolls?
Back in 1890, Thomas Edison gave us some of the world's first talking dolls. Embedded in each doll’s tin torso was a miniaturized model of Thomas Edison’s phonograph. He would call his talking dolls his “little monsters”pic.twitter.com/tWmsi0SlMP
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But she did have a soul. Borrowed, yet sublime.
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L'Eve Future is a bizarre and phantasmagoric work by a strange but brilliant man.
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I'd picked L'Eve Future for the subject of my doctoral dissertation. Never did go through. Became a journalist instead. Now I focus on fragrance, which actually brings me back to the book's question: "What are big girls made of"?
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For anyone interested in this, Gaby Wood's "Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life" is the best book I know. It doesn't get old.https://www.amazon.com/Edisons-Eve-Magical-History-Mechanical/dp/1400031583 …
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Wow...I wonder who he stole this idea from.
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more proof that he was pure evil
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As a matter of fact I used the 2 nd picture in a collage work illustrating Gaston Leroux ´s "La poupée sanglante "pic.twitter.com/RpyDIkF87B
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The last one reminds me of Frank N. Furter of Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Fantastic gif! You see it, too? Looks like nude android Frank N. Furter w/ hollow chest cavity filled w/ cups & saucers (&a few dinner plates). You never know when company will drop by so keep a place setting in your chest. Always.
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"My name is Talky Tina, and I'm beginning to HAATE you!"
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Aka Lady Gaga fans lol
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