Digital & Computing
Machines, minds and computers
...Source: Homer, lliad XVIII, translated by Ian Johnston (2002) Hephaestus himself had built these beautiful robotic servants. He also created Talos (Figure 1), a gigantic mechanical man of bronze, the guardian of Crete, who ran round the entire coast of the island three times a day (this equates to a speed of 250 miles per hour!) and hurled great rocks at suspected...
