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This day is publish'd, an account of the mechanism of an automaton, or image playing on the German flute, as it was presented in a memoir to the gentlemen of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris by Mr. Vaucanson
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De Aguliers, J.T. [translator] Vaucanson, Jacques de, 1709-1782 [artist]

Incledon, Charles Benjamin, 1763-1826 [performer]
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Long Room (London, England) [author]
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This day is publish'd, an account of the mechanism of an automaton, or image playing on the German flute, as it was presented in a memoir to the gentlemen of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris by Mr. Vaucanson
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Newscutting relating to the Long Room, 1742, announcing An automaton playing a german flute, etc.; 1742 (manuscript); Automaton playing a german flute; Artificial duck; Another image, playing on the tabor and pipe; Account of the mechanism of an automaton; This day is publish'd, an account of the mechanism of an automaton, or image playing on the German flute, as it was presented in a memoir to the gentlemen of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris by Mr. Vaucanson
Date 1742
date QS:P571,+1742-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions single sheet; 61 x 80 mm
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Waxworks 4 (62a)
Place of creation [s.l. (England)]: Parker, T.
Inscriptions Together with a description of an artificial duck, eating, drinking, macerating the food, and voiding excrements...
Notes Allegro identifier: 20030523/12:16:26$hm .
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