outstanding early effort of such dissociation. The great spurt in 
invention which began in the sixteenth century rested on the 
gradual dissociation of the machine from animal form.” Printing 
was the first mechanization of an ancient handicraft and led 
easily to the further mechanization of all handicrafts. The 
modern phases of this process are the theme of Mechanization  
Takes Command  by Siegfried Giedion.

     However, Giedion is concerned with a minute tracing of 
the stages by which in the past century we have used 
mechanism to recover organic form:

     In his celebrated studies of the ’seventies on the motions 
     of men and animals, Edward Muybridge set up a series of 
     thirty cameras at twelve-inch intervals, releasing their 
     shutters electromagnetically as soon as the moving