Scientific American, 21-January-1899 |
French inventor Jacques de Vaucanson created an automaton, called the Canard Digérateur (Digesting Duck) in 1768. It appeared to eat grain from a person's hand, digest it and excrete it. It may have been destroyed in a fire.
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