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<blockquote data-quote="Galloglaich" data-source="post: 5539400" data-attributes="member: 77019">haven't been around for a while, but I thought I'd drop by and post this one, it's too good not to spread about a bit.So one thing you could almost be certain that we have today but did not have in the Middle Ages, is robots.&nbsp; Well, if you believed that, you wouldn't be exactly accurate.&nbsp; In the Medieval period they had their own version, primitive yes, in terms of how they operated, no electronics just clockwork and hand-cranks.&nbsp; But they were sophisticated to an extent which most people today would find surprising, and they were a major part of public entertainment 'back in the day'.For example, check out this 15th Century Devil Automata owned by the Sforza family in Milan, still on display at their castle in Italy:<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Arte_lombarda%2C_automa%2C_xvi-xvii_sec._01.JPG/347px-Arte_lombarda%2C_automa%2C_xvi-xvii_sec._01.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Here is a short article about the above device<a href="http://io9.com/#!5795086/in-the-15th-century-satanic-automata-wigged-out-churchgoers" target="_blank">io9. We come from the future.</a>and a much longer and better academic article here:<a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/journals/rofl/articles/machines-garden-by-jessica-riskin" target="_blank">Machines in the Garden | Republics of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts</a>G.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Galloglaich, post: 5539400, member: 77019"] haven't been around for a while, but I thought I'd drop by and post this one, it's too good not to spread about a bit. So one thing you could almost be certain that we have today but did not have in the Middle Ages, is robots. Well, if you believed that, you wouldn't be exactly accurate. In the Medieval period they had their own version, primitive yes, in terms of how they operated, no electronics just clockwork and hand-cranks. But they were sophisticated to an extent which most people today would find surprising, and they were a major part of public entertainment 'back in the day'. For example, check out this 15th Century Devil Automata owned by the Sforza family in Milan, still on display at their castle in Italy: [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Arte_lombarda%2C_automa%2C_xvi-xvii_sec._01.JPG/347px-Arte_lombarda%2C_automa%2C_xvi-xvii_sec._01.JPG[/IMG] Here is a short article about the above device [url=http://io9.com/#!5795086/in-the-15th-century-satanic-automata-wigged-out-churchgoers]io9. We come from the future.[/url] and a much longer and better academic article here: [url=http://arcade.stanford.edu/journals/rofl/articles/machines-garden-by-jessica-riskin]Machines in the Garden | Republics of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts[/url] G. [/QUOTE]

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