pages: unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf, 202
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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 202 | THE TRAPEZE AUTOMATON automaton he merely copied figures presented by both his predecessors and his contemporaries, and he was fully aware of the existence of several such automata when he advertised his as an original invention. They were made by many mechanicians. In the illustrated appendix of the French edition of his "Memoirs" he goes further; he deliberately misrepre- sents the mechanism of the figure and insinuates that the automaton is a self-working one. This is not true, as it was worked by a concealed confederate, as described above by Decremps. Robert-Houdin even used the garlands of flowers to hide the moving bars as Pinetti and others of his pred- ecessors had done. The truth was not in him. [175] |