Man and the animals as thus described are compared to automata, and termed machines.
Wasmann considers that ants are neither miniature human beings nor mere reflex automata, and most students of their habits will probably accept this intermediate position as the most satisfactory.
He further supposed that the monads are " incorporeal automata," not interacting like bodies, but each perceiving what was passing in the other, and acting in consequence by appetite, or self-acting.
Abstract We address the issue of modeling a simple timeout in timed automata.
He invented the coin lock as used in pay toilets, several proportionally spaced typewriters and he built numerous automata.