Historical Automata
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Maillardet's Automaton: The 200-Year-Old Machine That Remembered
Around 1800, Henri Maillardet built a machine that could draw, write poetry and preserve its creator's identity in brass.
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Exploring the machines, mechanisms and mechanical ingenuity that came before modern computing and artificial intelligence.
From intricate clockwork automata and mechanical inventions to the earliest ideas of programmable machines, this is where we explore the ingenuity that laid the foundations for the technology we build today.
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