Jacques de Vaucanson
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French inventor of mechanical automata
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1709
- Died
- 1782
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Le mecanisme du fluteur automate
- An account of the mechanism of an automaton, or image playing on the German-flute: as it was presented in a memoire, to the gentlemen of the Royal-Academy of Sciences at Paris ... By M.V., inventor ... of the ... machine. Together with a description of an artificial duck, eating, drinking, macerating the food, and voiding excrements; pluming her wings, picking her feathers, and performing several operations in imitation of a living duck ... as also that of another image, no less wonderful than the first, playing on the tabor and pipe ...
- Le méćanisme du fluteur automate, presenté a messieurs de l'Académie royale des sciences
- Le me[a]canisme du fluteur automate =
- Le mécanisme du fluteur automate
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jacques
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of France
- Place of birth
- Grenoble
- Place of death
- Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Image
- Jacques de Vaucanson rectangular.jpg
- Religious order
- Order of the Minims
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- Commons category
- Jacques de Vaucanson
- date of birth
- 1709-02-24
- date of death
- 1782-11-21
- member of
- French Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- Jacques Vaucanson
- Commons Creator page
- Jacques de Vaucanson
- P8168
- Crazannes
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