Jacques de Vaucanson (French: [jak də vocɑ̃sɔ̃]; February 24, 1709 – November 21, 1782) was a French inventor and artist who built the first all-metal...

Lycée Vaucanson may refer to: Lycée Jacques de Vaucanson in Tours Lycée Vaucanson in Grenoble Lycée Jacques Vaucanson in Les Mureaux (Paris area) This...

Digesting Duck, was an automaton in the form of a duck, created by Jacques de Vaucanson and unveiled on 30 May 1764 in France. The mechanical duck appeared...

Lycée Jacques de Vaucanson is a senior high school/sixth-form college in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. It opened in 1989 and moved into a new building...

The Vaucanson Automat Flute Player is an android automaton playing the transverse flute, designed and produced by Jacques de Vaucanson and presented to...

institution took the name Ecole Professionnelle Vaucanson in 1876 in honor of the French inventor Jacques de Vaucanson. As of 2015[update] the school had 1,100...

and attached to the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers. A loom by Jacques de Vaucanson on display there suggested various improvements in his own, which...

Player, which could play twelve songs, created by the French engineer Jacques de Vaucanson in 1737. He also constructed The Tambourine Player and the Digesting...

accidentally created false abductive reasoning still in use today. Jacques de Vaucanson was a famous inventor who created an automaton that was a mechanical...

reenact myths and legends. In the 18th century, French inventor Jacques de Vaucanson created a significant humanoid automaton called The Flute Player...

including Yan Shi, Hero of Alexandria, Al-Jazari, Haroun al-Rashid, Jacques de Vaucanson, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Pierre Jaquet-Droz and Wolfgang von Kempelen...

could walk and reveal a cluster of lilies from his chest. In 1738 Jacques de Vaucanson created a mechanical robot duck that was able to drink and eat. Pierre...

high-pressure boiler (Cornish boiler) and "Puffing Devil" locomotive Jacques de Vaucanson (1709–1782) – credited with creating early robots (automata) as well...

leading to the establishment of mechanised Paul-Wyatt cotton mills. Jacques de Vaucanson presents the world's first automaton, The Flute Player (1737) to...

Württemberg. February 11 – Jacques de Vaucanson stages the first demonstration of an early automaton, The Flute Player at the Hotel de Longueville in Paris...

master toymaker Jacques de Vaucanson built for Louis XV an automated duck with hundreds of moving parts, which could eat and drink. Vaucanson subsequently...

honoring achievement in science (first awarded in 1731). February 24 – Jacques de Vaucanson, French engineer and inventor (died 1782) March 3 – Andreas Sigismund...

1775, later improved on by Jacques de Vaucanson. Later, Joseph-Marie Jacquard improved on the designs of Falcon and Vaucanson, introducing the revolutionary...

traditional myths and legends. In France, between 1738 and 1739, Jacques de Vaucanson exhibited several life-sized automatons: a flute player, a pipe player...

Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1665) 1709 – Jacques de Vaucanson, French engineer (d. 1782) 1721 – John McKinly, Irish-American physician...

him to the attention of the Mechanical Duck, the invention of one Jacques de Vaucanson. By reasons not entirely understood, the Duck attains consciousness...

statics and mechanics; created a mechanical explanation of gravitation Jacques de Vaucanson (1709–1782) – French Minim friar inventor and artist who was responsible...

first fully documented, all-metal slide rest lathe was invented by Jacques de Vaucanson around 1751. It was described in the Encyclopédie a long time before...

crushing, etc.). Rotary filing long predated milling. A rotary file by Jacques de Vaucanson, circa 1760, is well known. In 1783, Samuel Rehe invented a true...

(alumnus). Doumer was one of the President of the Third French Republic. Jacques de Vaucanson (donator). Engineer who invented the first all-metal lathe (a loom...

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influences include 18th and 19th century android makers, particularly Jacques de Vaucanson, Pierre Jaquet-Droz, Jean-Frédéric Leschot, and the great Parisian...

development between the earliest milling cutters known, such as that of Jacques de Vaucanson from about the 1760s or 1770s, through the cutters of the milling...

latitude. 1733 - William Kent developed an early stroller. 1740 – Jacques de Vaucanson debuted his clockwork powered carriage. 1760s - Inline skates invented...

Dixon, a fictionalized version of the Digesting Duck created by Jacques de Vaucanson Ping, domesticated duck who lives on the Yangtze River in China;...