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Continue exploring the history of innovation beyond the website. Discover books, digital timelines, and educational resources created to help preserve and share the story of automation, engineering, invention, robotics, and technology.

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Explore long-form histories that connect ancient engineering, mechanical innovation, industrialization, and modern automation.

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Promotional graphic for the book 'The History of Automation' featuring a large central book cover, a smaller inset copy, and a full-bleed background collage of gears, robots, computers, and blue circuitry. Text includes the title, taglines, and callout buttons at the bottom.

AUTOMATION HISTORY • BOOK 1

The History of Automation Book 1

Discover the origins of automation and follow humanity's journey from early mechanical systems and ancient engineering to the technologies that transformed the modern world.

$14.99
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Book cover for 'Ancient Automation: The First Machines of Civilization' by Andrew Miller, featuring an ancient city scene with a large book cover overlaid in the center and multiple feature callout panels around the edges.

AUTOMATION HISTORY • BOOK 2

Ancient Automation Book 2

Explore the first machines of civilization—from irrigation systems and water clocks to automata, mills, mechanical engineering, and the inventions that laid the foundation for modern automation.

$14.99
Paperback • Educational History
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A book cover for 'The Agricultural Revolution: Volume 1' from the Automation History Illustrated Timeline Collection. The cover features a dark, sepia-toned background with an illustration of two ancient farmers working in a field next to a stream, and a cityscape in the distance.

AUTOMATION HISTORY TIMELINE COLLECTION

Automation History Illustrated Timeline Collection – Volume 1: Origins of Civilization (10,000 BCE–500 BCE)

Explore the earliest chapters of technological history through a downloadable timeline covering inventions, engineering developments, civilizations, and the foundations of automation.

$7.99
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