The Writer Automaton by Pierre Jaquet-Droz
I saved the best for last. The Writer is the most complex of the three automata Jacquet-Droz automata housed at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The Writer is programmable such that he can write out any line of text up to 40 letters long. The sentence to be written is coded on a wheel where characters are ordered individually in sequence.
He writes with a real goose feather which he dips ink. After dipping the quill, the automaton taps the quill over the inkwell to remove excess ink to prevent drips. His eyes follow the text as he writes, and his head moves when he dips the quill in the inkwell.
Again, this clip is from Monsieur Sayous's film The Jaquet-Droz Androids, available at http://www.automates-anciens.com.
The Writer by Pierre Jaquet-Droz
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He writes with a real goose feather which he dips ink. After dipping the quill, the automaton taps the quill over the inkwell to remove excess ink to prevent drips. His eyes follow the text as he writes, and his head moves when he dips the quill in the inkwell.
Again, this clip is from Monsieur Sayous's film The Jaquet-Droz Androids, available at http://www.automates-anciens.com.
The Writer by Pierre Jaquet-Droz
Labels: antique, automata, automaton, collections, France, Jaquet-Droz, Swiss
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posted by Dug North on Sunday, June 25, 2006
1 Comments:
I think that that is very interesting, I've read about "The writer" before, and think it's amazing!
where did you find this?
thanks for posting it!
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