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  1. 28th September 2013, 08:38 PM #1
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    Default Promotional Gimmick

    I would like to take the credit for sharing this, but I can't. It was sent to me by Forum member Crowie.

    "The Writer" was made almost 250 years ago by Pierre Jaquet-Droz as a gimmick to promote his Swiss watchmaking business. He made a couple of other machines too, but this was the most complex.

    The Writer Automaton

    Full credit to Crowie for bringing this to our attention. Absolutely amazing.

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    Very Impressive.
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    Astonishing, how anyone could have the ability to firstly plan and design and then actually build and get the mechanics of it perfect so it worked is beyond me.
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    Truly amazing piece of machinery.
    How it was thought out and constructed is brilliant, even the boy's eyes follow the writing.
    Thanks for that, Bushmiller & Crowie.
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    Let's see someone make one of those on a CNC machine.
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    ... and it still works 240 years later.

    Amazing.
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