How exactly automation has developed, historians can not say concretely. The automaton donates wine and milk and has the form of a Bacchus figure. Sketch of an automaton from Heron of Alexandria. The mathematician and engineer Heron of Alexandria created the first vending machine (Danner, 2019). 1 century AD: The first automatonĪ first tradition of automation dates back to Egypt in the first century AD. It is derived from the name of the Greek goddess Automatia, the "goddess of free happiness and events occurring without human intervention" (Georges, 2014). The term "automation" also comes from ancient Greece. Even then, the quest for greater efficiency was a key reason why people were puzzling over ideas on how to do things automatically.Īlready Aristotle formulated: "If every tool could do its work, or even anticipate it, how Daedalus' works of art moved by themselves, or if the tripods of Hephaestus went to their sacred work of their own accord, if so the weavers themselves Weaving, neither would it be necessary for the foreman of the assistants or for the masters of the slaves "(Biese, 1842). This is documented by documents from ancient Greece or ancient Egypt. Automation has been moving people for thousands of years.
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