A London encyclopaedia, or universal dictionary of science, art, literature and practical mechanics : comprising a popular view of the present state of knowledge : illustrated by numerous engravings, a general atlas, and appropriate diagrams (1829)
Curtis, Thomas, fl. 1820 · London : Thomas Tegg · leaf 344
med his place. About the same period, M. \aucanson, amember of the Academy Royal of France, ledthe way to the unquestionable superiority ofmodern times, in tiiese contrivances, by the con-struction of his automaton duck, a production,it is said, so exactly resembling the living animal,that not a…
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