# The Influencing Machine, expanded edition

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- Book: [The Influencing Machine, expanded edition](https://www.bookquiver.com/mike-jay/the-influencing-machine-expanded-edition) ([The Influencing Machine, expanded edition.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mike-jay/the-influencing-machine-expanded-edition.md))
- Authors: [Mike Jay](https://www.bookquiver.com/mike-jay), [Oliver Sacks](https://www.bookquiver.com/oliver-sacks)
- Publisher: strange_attractor_press
- ISBN: 978-19-1767-415-7
- Pages: 296
- Published: 2026-09-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A gripping true tale of madness, technology, politics, and paranoia in Georgian England. Confined in Bedlam in 1797 as an incurable lunatic, James Tilly Matthews’s case is one of the most bizarre...