SH Archive The "Draughtsman-Writer" automaton by Henri Maillardet

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Username: KorbenDallas
Date: 2018-09-01 16:52:47
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For myself, I think about what tools would be needed to make the actual tools used in creation of this automatons.

As well as the calture you mentiined, because you do need knowledge of some quite specific disciplines.

 

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Username: igneous
Date: 2020-05-25 21:19:30
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I found a little bit more information but not a lot.
Elusive guy. He seems to have existed in the shadow of his mentor.
His will is online, however!! (a bit of it is below; from a family tree website - his great grandson is in the comments)

There were two interesting things I discovered while looking for this gentleman: One - Henri Houdini had an automata collection that burned up in a tragic fire. And somehow PT Barnum was involved? Two - John Penn Brock went to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.





Close up of the gears with a nice schematic:


Here is the snipped of his will:



This Doll and others are now in the Murtogh D. Guiness Collection (of Guiness Beer).



The Odd Bit About Houdini:


Sources:

Ancient Androids: Even Before Electricity, Robots Freaked People Out (general info about the period and inventions - a good read)

The will of Henri Maillardet - 1830 (the will)

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdo...EC0348B?doi=10.1.1.131.9001&rep=rep1&type=pdf (114 Pages - I only skimmed it - paper on the people and workings of these items)


http://www.figuresinthefourthdimension.com/document/Figures-In-the-Fourth-Dimension-sample.pdf

Sinkler, John Penn Brock (1875-1959) -- Philadelphia Architects and Buildings

 

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Username: Banta
Date: 2020-05-25 21:42:54
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Wasnt there a Plato quote about the people of Atlantis being the possessors of technology that allowed them to create Automata.

Not sure about Atlantis, but this is very interesting:

Plato, Euthyphro 11d (trans. Lamb) (Greek philosopher C4th B.C.) :
"I am a more clever artist than Daidalos (Daedalus), inasmuch as he made only his own works move."

Plato, Meno 97d :
"Sokrates (Socrates) : You have not observed with attention the images of Daidalos (Daedalus). But perhaps there are none in your country.
Meno : What is the point of your remark?
Sokrates : That if they are not fastened up they play truant and run away; but, if fastened, they stay where they are . . . To possess one of his works which is let loose does not count for much in value; it will not stay with you any more than a runaway slave: but when fastened up it is worth a great deal, for his productions are very fine things."
[N.B. Sokrates pretends to believe the old legend that Daidalos crafted animate statues.

To remind everyone, Daedalus is Icarus's father and the designer of his infamous wings.

More automaton quotes from other authors of "antiquity" at the link below.

AUTOMATONS (Automatones) - Animate Statues of Greek Mythology

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