Aug 1, 2011
"An account of the mechanism of an automaton, or
Image playing on the German-Flute; as it was presented in a Memoire, to the Gentlemen of the Royal-Academy of Sciences at PARIS.
By M. Vaucanson, Inventor and Maker of the said Machine. Together with
A Description of an artificial DUCK, eating, drinking, macerating the Food, and voiding Excrements, pluming her Wings, picking her Feathers, and performing several Operations in Imitation of a living Duck; Contrived by the same Person."
(Brochure advertising an automata exhibition, 1742)