Boing Boing on MSN13d
1880s automaton smokes cigarettes and moves a monocle
This spectacular automaton knows how to smoke cigarettes. This antique is rare and from the 1880s. It belongs to the ...
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Theses on the Philosophy of History
The story is told of an automaton constructed in such a way that it could play a winning game of chess, answering each move of an opponent with a countermove. A puppet in Turkish attire and with a ...