L'artificiale e Massimo Negrotti

da: Massimo Negrotti, The Reality of the Artificial. Nature, Technology and Naturoids, Berlin : Springer Heidelberg, 2012.

Artificial Things

Before 1800 (Various Sources)

Artificial cornea (G. Pellier de Quengsy)
Artificial fireworks
Artificial flower
Artificial horizon (J. Elton)
Artificial ice
Artificial insemination (L. Spallanzani)
Artificial irrigation
Artificial island
Artificial lake
Artificial marble
Artificial propagation (agricultural botany)
Artificial rainbow (F. Bacon)
Artificial selection
Artificial writing (J. Gutenberg)
memoria artificiosa (Cosmas Rossellius)
perspectiva artificialis (L. B. Alberti, P. della Francesca)

After 1800 (Various Sources)

Artificial adaptation (J.H. Holland)
Artificial arm (V. Kolff)
Artificial bait
Artificial barrier
Artificial beach
Artificial bells
Artificial blood (R. Naito)
Artificial blood vessel (A. Carrel)
Artificial blue (J. Guimet)
Artificial bone
Artificial brain cell (A. Richter-Dahlfors)
Artificial cardiac pacemaker (J. Hopps)
Artificial cardiac valve (C.A. Hufnagel)
Artificial cavity Artificial cell (T.M.S. Chang)
Artificial colours (A. Baeyer)
Artificial diamond (P. Williams Bridgman)
Artificial drying
Artificial ear (A. Djourno, C. Eyriès)
Artificial environment
Artificial esophagus (H. Neuhof)
Artificial experts (M.H. Collins)
Artificial extremities
Artificial eye
Artificial fertilizers (J.B. Lawes)
Artificial fibers
Artificial fish (M.S. Triantafyllou)
Artificial flavour
Artificial gelatin
Artificial grass (D. Chaney)
Artificial gravity
Artificial ground
Artificial habitat
Artificial hair
Artificial hand
Artificial hatching
Artificial heart (P. Winchell, W. Kolff, D. Liotta)
Artificial hip (T. Gluck)
Artificial honey
Artificial horizon for airplanes (A. Sperry)
Artificial incubation
Artificial intelligence (M. Minsky, H. Simon et al.)
Artificial island
Artificial ivory (H. Scarton, S. Calabrese)
Artificial joints
Artificial kidney (W. Kolff)
Artificial knee (A. Burstein)
Artificial lake
Artificial landscape
Artificial language
Artificial larynx (J.E. Mackenty)
 Artificial leather
Artificial leaf (D. Nocera)
Artificial leaves (S. Winkler)
Artificial life (C.G. Langton)
Artificial ligament
Artificial light (T. Edison)
Artificial limbs
Artificial liver (K. Matsumura, A. Demetriou)
Artificial lung (G. Mortensen)
Artificial milk (J. von Liebig)
Artificial muscle
Artificial musk (A. Baur)
Artificial nail (F. Slack)
Artificial nest
Artificial nerves
Artificial organs
Artificial pancreas
Artificial paradises (C. Baudelaire)
Artificial pearl (M. Koukichi)
Artificial perfume
Artificial plant
Artificial pond
Artificial radioactivity (F. Joliot)
Artificial rain (I. Langmuir, V. Schaefer)
Artificial reality (M. Krueger)
Artificial rearing
Artificial reef
Artificial resin
Artificial respiration
Artificial retina (A. Chow, V. Chow, M.A. Mahowald, C. Mead)
Artificial rock
Artificial rubber (W. Carothers, J. Nieuwland)
Artificial satellite
Artificial sensors
Artificial silk (H. de Chardonnet)
Artificial skeleton
Artificial skin (J. Burke, I. Yannas)
Artificial smell (Sony Corp.)
Artificial snow (Emile Wyss & Cie SA)
Artificial sound
Artificial speech
Artificial sphincter
Artificial star
Artificial starch
Artificial sweetener
Artificial tanning
Artificial taste
Artificial teeth
Artificial tears
Artificial urinary bladder
Artificial weathering
Artificial wood