Illustration from American Practice of Surgery: A Complete System of the Science and Art of Surgery (1906) by Joseph Bryant.
Featured on PDR in the essay Some Remarks on the Legacy of Madame Francine Descartes – First Lady and Historian of the Robocene – on the Occasion of 500 Years Since her Unlawful Watery Execution.
Dominic Pettman, through the voice of a distant descendant of the Roomba, offers a glimpse into the historiographical revenge of our enslaved devices.
Also appearing in the essay…
Evolution of the Bullet
Date
1906
From
American Practice of Surgery: A Complete System of the Science and Art of Surgery
