‘The Writer,’ 1 of 3 surviving automata
from the 18th century, is a programmable
boy that uses quill and ink to write any 40
letters of custom text. This 240-year-old
automaton uses all 6,000 of its parts to
create just enough pressure for fluid,
elegant writing, and is thought by
some to be the first computer. Source
This is truly a masterpiece of engineering from an early age. So amazing!
okay LOOK. I understand that on a purely mechanical and engineering level that this is an incredible piece but if scifi and fantasy media has taught me anything it’s that this motherfucker is haunted af and probably writes out gruesome deaths that mysteriously end up coming to pass thanks but NO THANKS BYE
computer science major here, i’m with haunted guy
Writer is actually one of a set language of three! The other ones play the organ:
And draw (it produces four different drawings):
Thank you for these images. Which just might give me nightmares.
This is the worst update I could have ever been updated with, thank you.
No idea why the OP chopped it off, but that should read “One of three surviving automata from the 18th century built by Jaquet-Droz”.
The automata were designed and built by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, Henri-Louis Jaquet-Droz and Jean-Frédéric Leschot as advertisement and entertainment toys designed to improve the sales of watches among the nobility of Europe in the 18th century. They were carried around, and lost at several points. The History and Archeology society of Neuchâtel eventually bought them in 1906, for 75,000 gold francs, and gave them to the museum. (Source)
checking the timestamps, all of sexygirlmax2019’s posts have been made today they’re formatted impeccably like bot messages and posts but they’re just a little off
this isn’t a bot this is a human controlling a blog acting like a bot all of the links?? aren’t porn links mysterious bit.ly links to this site: https://max2019.neocities.org/ if you “click here to instantly transport” you get taken to > /seraphim.html if you click it again > /cherubim.html again > /thrones.html …which returns a “Page Not Found” error
Porn Bot ARG
So I ran the mp3 you could get from /cherubim.html through a sstv scanner and got this back
Which is just straight up the image from /seraphim.html.
But the it’s weird, when I went back to /cherubim.html the page changed from a picture and an mp3 download to this:
And when I clicked on that I was taken to /firstsphere/thrones.html which looked like this:
When I clicked on THAT I was taken to /secondsphere/dominions.html and greeted to this disturbing image:
The last eye was apparently clickable which took me to /secondsphere/powers.html which looked like this:
the text on it reads: “H.U.R.L
Hierarchy of Uniform Resource Locators”
??????????
So /dominions.html just changed to this:
and /powers.html changed to:
BUT since making this update, the file for the image is no longer there! So it looks like:
Clicking on the (now missing) picture, it takes you to /secondsphere/light1.html which looks like:
Clicking that takes you to /secondsphere/light2.html, whick looks like how /powers.html looks:
Clicking that takes you back to /secondsphere/light1.html, which has JUST NOW gotten worse:
a weirdass ARG starting from a spam account is absolutely not what I expected from tumblr and I have learned to expect a whole lot of weirdness
This clockwork silver automaton was made 15 years before the First Fleet got to Australia. The mechanism was created by a guy named John Joseph Merlin who liked to make a splash at parties by rollerskating around (on inline skates of his own invention) while dressed as a barmaid and either distributing alcohol or playing the fiddle.
History can be considerably more bizarre than fiction.
This looks like stop motion animation
> Other inventions of Merlin’s include: a self-propelled wheelchair, a communication system for summoning servants, and a prosthetic device for “persons born with stumps only”, whist cards for the blind, a pump for expelling “foul air”, a pedal-operated revolving tea table, and a mechanical chariot with an early form of odometer.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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