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Digesting Duck
The Canard Digérateur, or Digesting Duck, was an automaton in the form of a duck, created by Jacques de Vaucanson and unveiled on 30 May 1739 in France. The mechanical duck appeared to have the ability to eat kernels of grain, and to metabolize and defecate them. While the duck did not actually have the ability to do this—the food was collected in one inner container, and the pre-stored feces were "produced" from a second, so that no actual digestion took place—
Paris: Editions Odile Jacob.
- Riskin, Jessica. "The defecating duck, or, the ambiguous origins of artificial life." "Critical Inquiry" 29, no. 4 (2003): 599-633.
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- Canard Digérateur de Vaucanson - Vaucanson's Digesting Duck
- Living Dolls: A Magical History Of The Quest For Mechanical Life by Gaby Wood Guardian Unlimited Books, Extracts, Saturday February 16, 2002
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