account of the mechanism of an automaton, or, image, playing on the German flute
Subtitle: as it was presented in a Memoire, to the gentlemen of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris
By: 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 ... --
Contributors: Desaguliers, J.T. 1683- 1744
Publisher: Printed by T. Parker and sold by Stephen Varillon ...
Published: 1742
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Automata
Work titles: Le mécanisme du fluteur automate.
Notes: Translation of: Le mécanisme du fluteur automate.