300 years ago, Automata existed. The idea was to create a self moving machine that can mimic the action of a living being.
This picture of a boy writing looks real. This young boy here is an Automata creation. It is almost 240 years old. It first appeared in 1770 in France. Automatons like this are famous in Europe during those times. They were made to entertain royal families and taught moral lessons to the society.
This card is a piece of writing made by this young boy - an Automaton machine.
One of the most magnificent automata of the 18th century, is this boy, The Writer.
He was built in Switzerland by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, one of Switzerland's greatest clockmakers.
The point was, to mechanize reason and automate the passions.
Jaquet-Droz was about 50 years old in the early 1770s when he designed and built this complex machine.
There are almost 6,000 parts inside the boy’s body. What's astounding was that all of these made parts have been refined and scaled down to fit totally inside the body of the boy himself.
Inside the little writer is all his wellspring of energy and all the apparatus that drives him.
He works on his own. At his center, is an incredible pile of cams. As these cams move, three cam adherents read their formed edges and make an interpretation of these into the development of the boy's arm.
Working together, the cams control each stroke of the plume pen, and precisely how much pressing factor is applied to the paper to accomplish delightful, exquisite, and liquid composition.
With this sublime creation, Jaquet-Droz had reverse engineered the very act of writing.
Yet, the mechanical boy contained one maybe much really astounding feature.
The wheel that controlled the cams consisted of letters that could be eliminated and afterwards replaced and reordered. These permitted the author on a fundamental level to make any word and any sentence. In other words, it allowed the writer to be programmed.
This wonderful creation is where the old model of the modern programmable computer.
The writer was one of the most advanced technological objects of the 18th century. Other automata creations of Jaquet-Droz were The Musician and The Draughtsman.
The Jaquet-Droz automata are considered the finest example of human mechanical problem solving during his time. They are very complex and still functional. The machines are displayed at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (art and history museum) in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Disclaimer: This article was based on the writers own interpretation of the documentation film. For educational purposes only. The author has no business affiliation with the Pierre Jaquet-Droz works. Should you find this article inappropriate for this site feel free to express your opinion.
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Mechanical Marvels Clockwork Dreams (2013)
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