An edition of Mécanisme du fluteur automate (1742)

account of the mechanism of an automaton, or image playing on the German-flute

as it was presented in a memoire, to the gentlemen of the Royal-Academy of Sciences at Paris ... Together with a description of an artificial duck, eating, drinking, macerating the food, and voiding excrements; pluming her wings, picking her feathers, and performing several operations in imitation of a living duck ... as also that of another image, no less wonderful than the first, playing on the tabor and pipe

By Jacques de Vaucanson