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In France, in between 1738 and 1739, Jacques de Vaucanson exhibited numerous existence-sized automatons: a flute player, a pipe player plus a duck. The mechanical duck could flap its wings, crane its neck, and swallow foodstuff with the exhibitor's hand, and it gave the illusion of digesting its foodstuff by excreting subject stored within a concea