The V-2: 19th- & 20th-century automaton

I commend to Pynchonites The Style of Connectedness: Gravity's Rainbow and Thomas Pynchon, by Thomas Moore.  Moore observes that the V-2 fits both the 19th- (fuel burning) and 20th-Century (informational) senses for an automaton.



Moore, The Style of Connectedness, p173

The Style of Connectedness: Gravity's Rainbow and Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Moore
University of Missouri (May 1, 1987)
ISBN-13: 978-0826206251
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