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- 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...
- The Vaucanson Automat Flute Player is an android automaton playing the transverse flute, designed and produced by Jacques de Vaucanson and presented to...
- 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 to...
- Lycée Vaucanson may refer to: Lycée Jacques de Vaucanson in Tours Lycée Vaucanson in Grenoble Lycée Jacques Vaucanson in Les Mureaux (Paris area) This...
- 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...
- attached to the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers. A loom by Jacques de Vaucanson on display there suggested various improvements in his own, which he gradually...
- which could play twelve songs, created by the French engineer Jacques de Vaucanson in 1737. He also constructed The Tambourine Player and the Digesting Duck...
- Frenchmen Basile Bouchon (1725), Jean Baptiste Falcon (1728), and Jacques Vaucanson (1740). The machine was controlled by a "chain of cards"; a number of...
- Lycée Vaucanson is a senior high school/sixth-form college in Grenoble, France. It originated from the Petit Séminaire du Rondeau, established in 1815...
- windmills. It was patented by Edmund Lee in 1745. Also in 1745, Jacques de Vaucanson invented the first automated loom. Around 1800, Joseph Marie Jacquard...