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The Writer, a programmable automaton

The Swiss watchmakers Pierre and Henri-Louis Jaquet-Droz finish three automata. The Writer, a wooden boy, writes with a quill any text of up to 40 letters, programmed on a wheel. It was advertising to sell watches to the nobility, and it still works today in Neuchâtel.

Source: Wikipedia, Jaquet-Droz automata

The Writer, at the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel.
The Writer, at the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel. CC BY-SA 4.0

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