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Maillardet's automaton
Automaton at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Maillardet's automaton (or Draughtsman-Writer, Maelzel's Juvenile Artist, Juvenile Artist) is an automaton built in London c. 1800 by a Swiss mechanician, Henri Maillardet. It is currently part of the collections at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
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