Research this week

My research over the past few days has been focused on automatons as well as magic, primarily Robert Houdin. Finding resources on Houdin is proving to be difficult as I mentioned before but the information that I am getting my hands on is fairly good. Articles that I have read this week are along with several non-academic web sites that I won't list at the moment are -

- Creativity of the Magician - Jehangir Bhownagary
- (excerpt) A Conjurer's Confessions - M. Robert-Houdin
- Words in Modern Magic - A.S. Fleischman