A clockwork automaton built 240 years ago was the first in the world to engineer the act of writing. Designed to look like a small boy, The Writer was created by Swiss-born watchmaker Pierre ...
“The Writer” is a clockwork automaton created in the 1770s by the Swiss-born famous watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz. The mechanism, designed to write words and sentences of up to 40 characters, still ...
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