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This is a late 18th century automaton that plays all by herself a specially built organ, quite impressive :-). Was built by Pierre Jaquet-Droz.
Video taken from here: http://dugnorth.com/ blog/2006/06/musicia n-automaton-by-jaque t-droz.html
decided to upload to youtube because video wasn't here :P
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz's automaton built between 1768 and 1774. It was not a computer, but was able to write custom lines of text up to 40 characters long. I cannot understand the commentary, but watching it at work is truly fascinating.
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