NOT KNOWN DETAILS ABOUT MIROBOT

In France, concerning 1738 and 1739, Jacques de Vaucanson exhibited many daily life-sized automatons: a flute participant, a pipe player plus a duck. The mechanical duck could flap its wings, crane its neck, and swallow food items in the exhibitor's hand, and it gave the illusion of digesting its foods by excreting matter stored in the hidden compa