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How Is Maillardet's Automaton Still Wowing Us After 200 Years?
Around the year 1800, Swiss clockmaker Henri Maillardet created a mechanical doll that moves like a person as it produces drawings and poems with a pen on paper -- it's programmed for seven in total, without having any e...
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How Is Maillardet's Automaton Still Wowing Us After 200 Years? is an episode from BrainStuff by iHeartPodcasts. Around the year 1800, Swiss clockmaker Henri Maillardet created a mechanical doll that moves like a person as it produces drawin...
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Published May 8, 2026, 9:28 long, audio available.
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