An account of the mechanism of an automaton, or, Image playing on the German-flute
Subtitle: as was presented in a memoire to the gentlemen of the Royal-Academy of Sciences at Paris
By: by M. Vaucanson ... ; 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: McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by T. Parker and sold by Mr. Stephen Varillon ...
Published: 1742
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Robots -- Early works to 1800.; Mechanical musical instruments -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Image playing on the German-flute.
Notes: Signatures: A-C⁴.
Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.