The November 13, 2016, post on the British Library’s Medieval manuscripts blog highlights a group of primarily sixteenth-century manuscripts containing diagrams of machines and robots powered by steam. Many of the texts included in the manuscripts date to the Byzantine period.
Publications/Nov 14, 2016
Automata for the People
Hero’s Pneumatika. The British Library (Burney MS 81, f. 12r). Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0