What mechanism is this part of?
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It was unveiled today:
'The Writer', an automaton built by Jaquet Droz, a Swiss watch maker, in around 1780. It's a machine in the shape of a small boy sitting at a table and holding a pen, and the mechanism concealed in his body allows the boy to write any preprogrammed sentence up to 40 characters long, and written over 2 or 3 lines.
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/writer-automa...
'The Writer', an automaton built by Jaquet Droz, a Swiss watch maker, in around 1780. It's a machine in the shape of a small boy sitting at a table and holding a pen, and the mechanism concealed in his body allows the boy to write any preprogrammed sentence up to 40 characters long, and written over 2 or 3 lines.
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/writer-automa...
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