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1 edition of 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 ... found in the catalog.

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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 ...

by Jacques de Vaucanson

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Published 1742 by Printed by T. Parker, and sold by Mr. Stephen Varillon in London .
Written in English

Edition Notes

The Physical Object
Statement	Translated out of the French original, by J.T. Desaguliers
Contributions	Desaguliers, J. T. (John Theophilus), 1683-1744, Académie royale des sciences (France)
Pagination	24 pages :
Number of Pages	24
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL26490930M