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240 year old automaton
- memracom 13y agoIt is fascinating to compare this (and the Jacquard loom) to the early electronic digital computers. In all cases part of the genius was to decompose complexity into a small set of operations which could be repeated and composed in many ways. There is a lesson here for software developers.
- ajoy 13y agotru that. There is actually a series of these automatons he built : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaquet-Droz_automata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaquet-Droz_automata I think the movie 'Hugo' was inspired by this. Other fascinating automatons : http://mentalfloss.com/article/28800/8-amazing-automatons-minds-behind-them http://mentalfloss.com/article/28800/8-amazing-automatons-mi... The complete 1 hour BBC documentary on automatons : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a683OObwLk4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a683OObwLk4 ( BBC Mechanical Marvels Clockwork Dreams )