Bionics: Man Copies Nature's Machines
- ISBN-10
- 0841520135
- ISBN-13
- 9780841520134
- Series
- Bionics
- Pages
- 74
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1970
- Publisher
- McCall Publishing Company
- Authors
- Alvin Silverstein, Virginia B. Silverstein
Description
Describes the new science devoted to the study of systems in living things such as sound-location, memory and learning, heat detection, and biological clocks and the application of the findings to man-made systems.
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