# Edison's Eve

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- Book: [Edison's Eve](https://www.bookquiver.com/gaby-wood/edisons-eve) ([Edison's Eve.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gaby-wood/edisons-eve.md))
- Authors: [Gaby Wood](https://www.bookquiver.com/gaby-wood)
- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-14-0003-158-0
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2003-07-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

During the eighteenth century, the inventor Jacques de Vaucanson created a mechanical duck that seemingly could digest and excrete its food. A few decades later, Europeans fell in love with “the...