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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 112 | THE WRITING AND DRAWING FIGURE the mint at Paris and a mechanician of rare talent. Jean Pierre Droz is credited with having invented a machine for cutting, stamping, and embossing medals on the face and on the edges at one insertion. The output of this shop and its staff of gifted workers included the first Swiss music box, the singing birds which sprang from watches and jewel caskets, the drawing figure which was an improvement on the writing figure, the spinet player, and the grotto with its many automatic animals of diminutive size but exquis- ite workmanship. Years were Jean-Frédéric Leschot. Born 1747, died 1824. Por- spent in perfecting the various trait published by Société des Arts de Genève. Presented to automata, and none of them the author by Mons. Blind (Magicus) of Geneva. have been equalled or even approached by later mechanicians and inventors. Henri-Louis Jacquet-Droz was conceded to be the supe- rior of his father, Pierre Jacquet-Droz. In a German en- cyclopaedia which I found at the King's Library, Munich, it is stated that when Vaucanson, celebrated as the in- ventor of "The Flute Player," "The Mechanical Duck," "The Talking Machine," etc., saw the work of the younger Droz, he cried loudly, "Why, that boy com- mences where I left off!" According to the brochure issued by the Society of History and Archaology, Canton of Neuchâtel, and an article contributed by Dr. Alfred Gradenwits to The Scientific American of June 22d, 1907, the 95 ] |