Chapters 4 and 5 are filled with a great deal of information about Hugo’s father and uncle. What do we learn about his father? His Uncle? The Automaton? Pick one or all three topics to blog about for this post.
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Brian Selzick did a great deal of research to write this wonderful book. One of his many stops was to a place that I visited many times as a child. Located in Philadelphia (my hometown), The Franklin Institute opened their doors to Brian as he wrote Hugo. Here he learned about automatons and their importance back in the in the early 1900s.
This link is the Franklin Institute's website. The top section contains a great deal of information about the early automotans. Half way down the page, you want to click the video on the right. This is when Brian visited and signed Hugo.
http://www.fi.edu/learn/sci-tech/automaton/automaton.php?cts=instrumentation -