Programmable, 19th century, 6,000-piece automaton

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Wendy Norman
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Programmable, 19th century, 6,000-piece automaton

Postby Wendy Norman » November 7th, 2013, 2:48 pm

Wonderful precision engineering in this automaton boy – hard to believe that he was made so long ago. It seems unbelievable that he was programmable, and that he still works today!
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Re: Programmable, 19th century, 6,000-piece automaton

Postby paul smith » November 7th, 2013, 6:12 pm

wow thats ironic
i was just planning to build a fully automated head with servos ,not clockwork like this amazing piece of work,but i suppose RC planes are automatons really cause of the mimicking of bird behavior.
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