The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 158
. The delusionhas long been exploded; but for many years the inventor two feet wide, and four feet long. All the portions of theapparatus were fixed together, and could be moved to any partof the room. When an antagonist presented himself, the first proceedingwas to open all the doors of the chest… … DE KEMPELIN S AUTOMATON. attained great renown by the possession of a secret whichseemed to defy analysis. The automaton at the Crystal Palaceis not the first of its kind, nor is it by any means comparableto the splendid original. The first automaton was constructed by a Hungarian gentle-man,…
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