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.V., inventor ... of the ... 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 ... as also that of another image, no less wonderful than the first, playing on the tabor and pipe ...
By: Translated out of the French original, by J.T. Desaguliers
Contributors: Desaguliers, J. T. (John Theophilus), 1683-1744; Académie royale des sciences (France)
Publisher: Printed by T. Parker, and sold by Mr. Stephen Varillon
Published: 1742
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Notes: Translation of Le Mécanisme du fluteur automate, published 1738.

ESTC T113568.