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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 113 | THE UNMASKING OF ROBERT-HOUDIN writing and drawing figures are made and operated as follows: "The writer represented a child of about four years of age, sitting at his little table, patiently waiting with the pen in his hand until the clockwork is started. He then sets to work and, after looking at the sheet of paper before him, lifts his hand and moves it toward the ink-stand, in which he dips the pen. The little fel- low then throws off an excess of ink and slowly and calmly, like an industrious child, begins writing on the paper the prescribed sentence. His handwriting is careful, conscien- The Jacquet-Droz writing automaton. From the brochure issued by the Society of tiously distinguishing History and Archaology, Canton of Neu- châtel, Switzerland. between hair strokes and ground strokes, always observing the proper intervals between letters and words and generally showing the sober and de- termined character of the handwriting usual at the time in the country of Neuchâtel. In order, for in- [96] |