The duck of Vaucanson was 800 articulated pieces of gilded copper that could eat, quack, and splash. During public displays, it ate from a dish of porridge, flapped its wings, waddled away, and relieved itself in full view of an admiring public. Its creator, Jacques de Vaucanson, alleged that the duck’s inner workings contained a small “chemical laboratory” capable of breaking down grain and turning it to excrement, but its droppings were later found to be pellets of mashed bread, dyed green.
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The duck of Vaucanson was 800 articulated pieces of gilded copper that could eat, quack, and splash. During public displays, it ate from a dish of porridge, flapped its wings, waddled away, and relieved itself in full view of an admiring public. Its creator, Jacques de Vaucanson, alleged that the duck’s inner workings contained a small “chemical laboratory” capable of breaking down grain and turning it to excrement, but its droppings were later found to be pellets of mashed bread, dyed green.