Automatism
a word derived from two Greek words signifying self-movement, and usually applied to machinery AUTUMN constructed to represent human or animal actions; automatic, used of an apparatus, implies that it does its work with little or no guidance or interference from man, as in a telegraphic automatic transmitter. The construction of automata has occupied the attention of mankind from very early ages. Archytas of Tarentum is reported, as long ago as 400 в. c., to have made a pigeon that could fly.
AUTOMOBILES. See MOTOR VEHICLE