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Robots - Early works to 1800
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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- Books
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To the curious in mechanism and musick.
Date: 1780?]- Books
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An account of the automaton, constructed by Orffyreus: in two letters; the one, from Professor 'sgravesande, to Sir Isaac Newton; the other from Baron Fischer, to Dr. Desaguliers. To which is annexed the testimonial of the Prince of Hesse Cassel, in favour of Orffyreus's Machine: likewise animadversions, by Professor Allaman of Leyden, on the neglect of that singular invention; with additional remarks on it's utility, reconstruction and improvement.
Kenrick, W. (William), 1725?-1779.Date: printed in the year M.DCC.LXX. [1770]