Brewster, David, Sir, 1781-1868, Smith, James Alexander · London, Chatto · leaf 290
269 KEMPELEN ?s TALKING ENGINE. >unds of the consonants P, M, L, and by means of these vowels and consonants, he could compose syllables and words, such as mama, papa, aula, lama, mulo. The sounds cf two adjacent letters, however, run into each other, and an aspiration followed some of the… … by having only one mouth and one glottis. The mouth consisted of a funnel or bell-shaped piece of elastic gum, which approximated, by its physical properties, to the softness and flexibility of the human organs.* To the mouth-piece was added a nose made of two tin tubes, which communicated with the…
Magic · Scientific recreations
Internet Archive · Gerstein - University of Toronto · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from Cosmographia in qvatvor libros distribvta summo ordine, miraqve facilitate, ac breuitate ad magnam Ptolemæi mathematicam constructionem, ad vniuersamque astrologiam institutens. Francisco Barocio ... avtore. Cum præfatione eiusdem autoris, in qua perfecta quidem astrologiæ diuisio, & enarratio autorum illustrium, & voluminum ab eis conscriptorum in singulis astrologiæ partibus habetur: Joannis de Sacrobosco verò 84 errores, et alij permulti suorum expositorum, & sectatorum ostenduntur. rationibusq[uam] redarguuntur. Præcesserunt etiam quædam communia mathematica, necnon arithmetica, & geometrica principia, nonnullæq[uam] propositiones, de quibus in toto opere sæpe fit mentio: ac demum locupletissimus index eorum, quæ ipsa Cosmographia continentur .. (1585)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cosmographiainqv00baro-120-40.webp)
