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Vaucanson, Jacques de, 1709-1782
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An account of the mechanism of an automaton, or image playing on the German-flute: as it was presented in a memoire, to the gentlemen of the Royal-Academy of Sciences at Paris ... By M.V., inventor ... of the ... machine. Together with a description of an artificial duck, eating, drinking, macerating the food, and voiding excrements; pluming her wings, picking her feathers, and performing several operations in imitation of a living duck ... as also that of another image, no less wonderful than the first, playing on the tabor and pipe ... / Translated out of the French original, by J.T. Desaguliers.
Vaucanson, Jacques de, 1709-1782Date: 1742- Books
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An account of the mechanism of an automaton, or image playing on the German-Flute: as it was presented in a memoire, to the gentlemen of the Royal-Academy of Sciences at Paris. By M. Vaucanson, Inventor and Maker of the said Machine. Together with a description of an artificial duck, eating, drinking, macerating the Food, and voiding Excrements, pluming her Wings, picking her Feathers, and performing several Operations in Imitation of a living Duck: Contrived by the same Person. As also That of another Image, no less wonderful than the first, playing on the Tabor and Pipe; as he has given an Account of them since the Memoire was written. Translated out of the French original, by J. T. Desaguliers, L. L. D. F. R. S. Chaplain to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Vaucanson, Jacques de, 1709-1782.Date: 1742