Maillardet has executed an automatonwhich both writes and draws.
Kempelen, a gentleman of Presburg in Hungary, constructed an automaton chess-player, the general appearance of which is shown in the annexed figures.
The automaton of Degennes probably suggested to M.
Its ingenious inventor, who was a gentleman and a man of education, never pretended that the automaton itself really played the game.
In general, though not always, the automaton wins the game.
Raisin, the organist of Troyes, who exhibited an automaton player upon the harpsichord, which astonished the French court by the variety of its powers.
Following this memoir, I shall therefore attempt to give as popular a description of the automaton as can be done without lengthened details and numerous figures.
The automaton is now ready to play, and when an opponent has been found among the company, the figure takes the first move.
Vaucanson was engaged in the construction of these wonderful machines, his mind was filled with the strange idea of constructing an automaton containing the whole mechanism of the circulation of the blood.
The automaton stopped its hand, and turned its head.
But Elizabeth said nothing and looked nothing; she marched on like an automaton beside her two companions, through the great halls, one after another, till the room was reached and they had secured their seats.
Mr. Satterthwaite was quite ready, and they went home; Elizabeth changed to anautomaton again.
The living automaton opened a door and stood silent and impassive while Clio, staring at her in horror, shrank past her and into the sumptuously furnished suite.
No automaton this, geared and set to perform certain fixed duties with mechanical precision, but a lithe, strong man in hard training, fighting with every foul trick known to his murderous ilk.
Long study had not only convinced me that anautomaton was within the realm of possibility, but that there were many mechanical systems by which it could be achieved.
Yet, until now, no hypothesis has been devised which would force an automaton to show to us, before our very eyes, the eclipses of the planets in their true and certain times.
He made an Automaton in the likeness of a soldier, which marched and performed sundry actions.
At length she sang--and sang divinely: I found the pale automaton had a soul as well as a voice.
She called to her by name, in that harsh voice which Lydie detested, whilst the obsequious automaton came forward and relieved her from the trouble of turning that handle herself.
Like an automaton Gertrude placed her small foot upon the step and paused, her dumfounded gaze confronting the equally stunned eyes of the chauffeur.
She moved toward the door with the rigidity of an automaton doll, her magnetized eyes never leaving his reddening face and her hands groping ahead.
Was it not the Bishop of Bombay who said that man was an automatonplus the mirror of consciousness?
The Government of every Indian province is an automaton plus the mirror of consciousness.
Robert Keable urging the Automatoncalled Citizen to turn on his oppressor.
If anybody would only contrive some kind of a lever that one could thrust in among the works of this horrid automaton and check them, or alter their rate of going, what would the world give for the discovery?
I have played a game at chess with the Automaton myself.
On this count, even were we not Automaton Tea-Goers, debarred by inherent stability from any normal human intercourse, the afternoon tea must prove more disheartening than helpful.
But several most honourable gentlemen did not rest satisfied with this explanation; the history of this automaton had sunk deeply into their souls, and an absurd mistrust of human figures began to prevail.
Spalanzani was obliged, as has been said, to leave the place in order to escape a criminal charge of having fraudulently imposed an automaton upon human society.
We are conscious of an intellectual mind capable of reasoning upon unfamiliar occurrences, and of an automaton mind capable of acting intuitively in certain matters without effort of the will or consciousness.
I like to fancy that there is something more than this, and that a ferment is an automaton which the plant compels to labour for it--a Frankenstein monster having semi-living qualities, being no more than a parody of life.
It would be safer for me to rest contented with asserting that plants are vegetable automata, as some philosophers are content to make an automaton of Man.
Besides, if he tries, that brass-buttoned automatonin front of him will probably start shaking him gently in its well-trained English way.
He can tell you of the message the automaton scrawled for him on a bit of paper.
He became a visitor to the "Man with the Rolling Eye," though I believe he used to call my automaton "The Sheik of Baalbec.
The automaton has a corner of the lower hallway in the old Natural History Museum.
If I spent my working hours manipulating the automaton at the old museum, all my leisure I spent in seeking a glimpse of my own daughter.
It was followed by a stillness not only of the automaton itself, but also of ourselves.
The doors are then shut, and the automaton is ready to play; but it always takes the first move.
The same gentleman exhibited an automatonin England, of the figure of a man, as large as life.
After a move made by its antagonist, the automaton paused for a few moments, as if contemplating the game.
If the antagonist delayed any considerable time the automaton tapped smartly on the chest with the right hand.
In playing, the automaton always made choice of the first move and the white pieces.
Monsieur Maelzel also exhibited an automaton trumpeter, life size, attired in a full British uniform.
At the close of the game the automaton moved the knight, with its proper motion, over each of the sixty-three squares of the board in turn, without missing one, and without a single return to the same square.
The automaton chess-player and other pieces of mechanism exhibited by Monsieur Maelzel were very popular at Washington.
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