Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: An Intimate and Distant Machine 1
4. Part 1. God and Demon, 1790– 1910
5. Introduction 13
6. 1. The Republican Automaton 19
7. 2. Humanizing the Industrial Machine 41
8. 3. Mechanizing Men 71
9. Part 2. Masters and Slaves, 1910– 1945
10. Introduction 97
11. 4. Symbolizing the Machine Age 103
12. 5. Building the Slaves of Tomorrow 131
13. 6. Conditioning the Robot’s Brain 163
14. 7. A War against the Machine Age 187
15. Part 3. Playfellow and Protector, 1945– 2019
16. Introduction 209
17. 8. Preserving American Innocence 215
18. 9. The Postindustrial Gift 241
19. 10. Cheerful Robots 271
20. Epilogue: The American Robot 295
21. Acknowledgments 303
22. Notes 309
23. Index 365