An edition of Mécanisme du fluteur automate (1742)

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, ... Together with a description of an artificial duck, ... Translated out of the French original, by J. T. Desaguliers, ...

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An edition of Mécanisme du fluteur automate (1742)

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, ... Together with a description of an artificial duck, ... Translated out of the French original, by J. T. Desaguliers, ...

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printed by T. Parker, and sold by Mr. Stephen Varillon
Language
English
Pages
24

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Subjects
Automata, Early works to 1800, Mechanical musical instruments, Robots

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Cover of: An account of the mechanism of an automaton, or image playing on the German-flute
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, ... Together with a description of an artificial duck, ... Translated out of the French original, by J. T. Desaguliers, ...
1742, printed by T. Parker, and sold by Mr. Stephen Varillon
Microform in English
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Cover of: An account of the mechanism of an automaton, or, Image playing on the German-flute
An account of the mechanism of an automaton, or, Image playing on the German-flute: as was presented in a memoire to the gentlemen of the Royal-Academy of Sciences at Paris
1742, Printed by T. Parker and sold by Mr. Stephen Varillon ...
in English
Cover of: An account of the mechanism of an automaton, or image playing on the German-flute
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 ... 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
1742, Printed by T. Parker, and sold by Mr. Stephen Varillon
in English
Cover of: An account of the mechanism of an automaton, or, image, playing on the German flute
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
1742, Printed by T. Parker and sold by Stephen Varillon ...
in English

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Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 8955, no.01).

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