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Thread: Promotional Gimmick
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28th September 2013, 08:38 PM #1
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.
Regards
PaulBushmiller;
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"
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28th September 2013, 09:46 PM #2
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.
CHRIS
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29th September 2013, 06:37 PM #4
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.
Keith.
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29th September 2013, 06:45 PM #5
Let's see someone make one of those on a CNC machine.
Hugh
Enough is enough, more than enough is too much.
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29th September 2013, 08:06 PM #6
... and it still works 240 years later.
Amazing.
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